When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Phosphine molecules seen around Venus, the second planet from the Sun. | Credit: NASA/Robert Lea New preliminary evidence for phosphine and ammonia in the Venusian atmosphere deepens the mystery behind what produces these gases. The puzzling origins of phosphine,… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows an asteroid breaking up into meteoroid fragments near the moon. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA It’s easy to imagine the Moon as an atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting Earth. But despite lacking breathable air,… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Canadarm2 releases the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft from the International Space Station. | Source: NASA The Canadian robotic arm on the International Space Station is days away from reaching a major milestone. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced today… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Monday, August 19, brings the start of another major political convention in Chicago. And that night, skywatchers will be able to gaze at the most unusual full moon of all, because it will also… Read More »
SEATTLE — As the Pioneer Fire approached within a mile and a half of the remote town of Stehekin in northern Washington, emergency management officials went door-to-door Sunday asking residents to evacuate. The evacuation warning has been raised to the highest level. “The boats are running,” said Rich Magnussen, an emergency management specialist for Chelan… Read More »
NASA management is engaged in deep discussions this week about whether the agency should send its astronauts back to Boeing’s crippled Starliner capsule or use a SpaceX spacecraft to rescue the crew. The agency’s concern about the Starliner, which carried NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station in early June,… Read More »
Language allows people to communicate their thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds to the meaning of words in similar ways. In our newly published research, my colleagues and I developed a framework to model the brain activity of speakers as they engage in face-to-face conversations. We recorded the electrical activity of two… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a comet exiting the solar system after encountering Saturn. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva) Scientists have discovered a comet heading out of the Solar System after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, dubbed… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A view of the Abell 1689 galaxy cluster, filled with purple galaxies and bright stars, showing off its enormous dark matter content. | Credit: NASA Dark matter is notoriously antisocial, refusing to interact with light and “normal” matter, effectively… Read More »