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10 Greatest Movie Masterpieces of the Last 60 Years
Trying to define the "greatest" films of the
In 1979, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and photographed an active volcano erupting on Io, ...
In March 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe swept past Jupiter and, in an image taken not for science but for navigation, captured the first active volcano ever seen on a world other than Earth. The volcano was on Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four
Ariane 6 set to launch the heaviest payload in Ariane history, 36 Amazon Leo satellites, ...
Arianespace is scheduled to launch 36 Amazon Leo broadband satellites aboard an Ariane 6 rocket on Wednesday, June 17, in a flight the company says will carry the heaviest payload ever launched by an Ariane launcher. Liftoff from Europe’s Spaceport in
OUR SPACE: Farewell to MAVEN | The Union-Recorder
Mars as you’ve never seen it before: NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission acquired stunning views of Mars in an ultraviolet image taken at a point along our neighboring planet’s orbit around the Sun. (NASA/ LASP/ CU Boulder) The
Quantum lab aboard space station gets 'chilly' upgrade
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have
Lava planet has hydrogen-rich, active atmosphere
It’s 2158, and you’re chugging away on your PhD in Planetary Volcanology from the University of
When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees ...
It might sound strange but a swarm of bees deciding where to live is perhaps one of the cleanest examples of a crowd making a good choice without anyone in charge. There is no leader, no vote-counter, no bee that surveys the options and issues a verdict. The
A volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits closer to outer space than Mount Everest does, ...
The mountain is Chimborazo, a long-quiet volcano in the Andes of Ecuador, and the claim about it is true: its summit is the point on the surface of the Earth that sits farthest from the planet’s centre. Farther than the summit of Mount Everest, by about
A single ‘supercolony’ of Argentine ants is thought to stretch some 6,000 km along the ...
Picture a single society running from the Italian Riviera to the Atlantic edge of Spain, its members numbering in the billions, none of them ever raising a weapon against another. That is not a thought experiment about humans; it is a population of ants. In
SpaceX Stock Has Now Started to Fall
Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public on Friday, exploding onto the scene with a valuation that quickly eclipsed $2 trillion. Things went swimmingly for a while, with shares steadily rising from a debut $150 — a premium of 11 percent over the original asking
Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered
Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company's
The average human brain volume has decreased by approximately 150 cubic centimetres since the late ...
The popular framing of human evolution, repeated across textbooks, museum exhibits, and most contemporary writing on the subject, is that the human brain has been getting larger across the entirety of our evolutionary history. The story typically begins with
Photographer’s New App Takes the Guesswork Out of Milky Way Photography
Many photographers love photographing the Milky Way, but few
Cogent network issue - sanity check
Won't name the provider as I'm not trying to badmouth (they're fairly well known) but having a headscratching interaction over a 26-hour colocation DIA interruption that I'd really appreciate feedback. Perhaps my own expectations are way off base, so trying to
NASA X-ray spacecraft catches jet erupting from 1st supermassive black hole imaged by humanity
"We could already see changes in the jet, but never with this level of detail in X-rays." ...
NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted
One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an NASA home page
Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space NASA home page
Psychologist Laura Carstensen uncovered a surprising upside to growing older: as our sense of the ...
This piece summarises published research on ageing and emotional well-being. We are not psychologists or clinicians, and nothing here is psychological advice. If you’re struggling with mood, isolation, or a life-stage transition of the kind discussed, a
Watch European rocket launch record-breaking mission for Amazon on June 17
An Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket will launch a record-breaking load to orbit early on Wednesday morning (June 17), and you can watch the action live. ...
Late-night SpaceX rocket launch from Florida. When is liftoff?
Ready for a very late-night rocket launch? A SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is expected to lift off on Wednesday morning. SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying three AST SpaceMobile BlueBird broadband satellites in the very early
What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready
How can the Sun keep shining with its
‘Fireworks’ spotted in stellar explosion 15 million light-years away
Fourth of July celebrations got an early start in a nearby galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe galaxy Messier 83 (M83) spotted the unexpected explosive aftermath of a supernova. Typically, the aftermath of a stellar explosion
10 Sci-Fi Movies Without a Single Flaw
Science fiction has long been an essential pillar of cinematic
Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11
Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the NASA home page
Experience the Launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
Are you ready for a new view of the universe? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal distant worlds, dark energy, and the structure of the cosmos, NASA home page
Department of Health and Human Services Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network Challenge
NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament NASA home page
SpaceX goes public: Inside the historic IPO and what comes next
SpaceX has officially become a publicly traded company, marking a historic moment not just for the aerospace industry but for global capital markets. After 24 years as a private entity, the company priced its initial public offering at $135 per share, raising