Category: Science

THIS is the horrific moment an astronaut’s helmet filled with water as he floated outside of the international space station, almost killing him. Luca Parmitano found himself contemplating death by drowning or risking his head exploding by removing the helmet. Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned inside his helmet while floating outside of the international space...

23 Starlink satellites joined the constellation after successfully being launched into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 that was flying for a record-breaking 18th time. Launching on Friday at 8:37 p.m. ET, about midway through the launch window, Falcon 9 Booster 1058 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,...

For a few days in the southern hemisphere every spring, the world’s biggest and most famous coral reef explodes. This is coral spawning season – a time when the Great Barrier Reef creates the next generation of corals. In fact, as some scientists explain it, it’s when the whole reef has sex. This year’s coral...

After 4,000 days on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to explore the ancient climate of the Red Planet, recently drilling its 39th sample from the sulfate-rich “Sequoia” region, as it overcomes obstacles like a jammed camera filter wheel. The Curiosity mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is...

Getting sick or experiencing a life-threatening injury in Starfield is a lot less of an inconvenience than it should be, and many players are just living with the consequences of being “chronically sick.” One would think that if you got sick in actual space, you’d be doomed, or at the very least, hindered in your...

The land beneath the New York City area, including the borough of Queens, pictured here, is moving by fractions of inches each year. The motions are a legacy of the ice age and also due to human land usage. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists using space-based radar found that land in New York City is sinking at...

Summary: Using a comparison to vinyl record collectors, researchers delve into the concept of matching—a behavior where decisions are based on reward expectations—observed from pigeons to humans. In a recent study, the team found that fruit flies also demonstrate this behavior, deciding based on their reward predictions. By pinpointing this activity in the fly’s brain,...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide on Europa, Jupiter’s moon, suggesting it might have conditions suitable for life. The discovery points to exchanges between the moon’s icy surface and its subsurface ocean, emphasizing Europa’s potential in upcoming space missions. This illustration depicts a plume of water vapor that could potentially be emitted...

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter British and African archaeologists have discovered evidence of the world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species of humans from half a million years ago. It was...