NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are inevitable. The world's first lunar visitors orbited the moon on Apollo 8.
When an invisible entity making up 85% of the universe's mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an understandable response. Physicists call it “ dark matter, ” a substance they describe as the cosmic glue, the scaffolding, a web that uses gravity to corral, shape and hold together stars, planets and galaxies. Dark matter's existence is only inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter.
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The discovery was made in an ancient shipwreck in the Dor Lagoon near the Carmel Coast, where archaeologists recovered nine pieces of unprocessed iron known as “blooms. ” Researchers from the University of Haifa said Wednesday that an underwater excavation off Israel’s northern Mediterranean coast uncovered what they described as the earliest known cargo of raw iron transported by ship, dating back around 2,600 years, Xinhua reported.
The spring heat wave that baked the West for over a week has finally moved along, after setting more than 1,500 temperature records across 11 states.
A new atlas of 45 potentially habitable planets makes us think of the new film "Project Hail Mary," based on the book by Andy Weir.
Priming people to watch out for political deepfakes helps them question the AI-generated videos.
The Antennae galaxies are witnessed in the process of merging into a single elliptical galaxy.
On Episode 203 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Namrata Goswami of Johns Hopkins University to examine the potential threats to American leadership in space.
The four astronauts making NASA’s next lunar leap bear little resemblance to the Apollo era. This first Artemis crew includes a woman, a person of color and a Canadian, products of a more diversified astronaut corps. None of them were alive during NASA’s storied Apollo program that sent 24 astronauts to the moon including 12 moonwalkers.