4 Min Read NASA’s Wideband Technology Demo Proves Space Missions are Free to Roam An artist’s concept of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal transmitting data in space. Credits: NASA/Morgan Johnson Just…
Divers found the well-preserved vessel while searching for a different wreck called the “Rapid City,” which sank near Toronto in 1917
Researchers calculated every glacier’s lifespan and found that even at the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal, the planet would lose around half of its 200,000 glaciers by 2100
SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then switch to natural gas, cutting carbon emissions in…
All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward
NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon. This series of overlapping frames from Feb. 19, 2025, displays…
Welcome to Edition 8.23 of the Rocket Report! Several new rockets made their first flights this year. Blue Origin’s New Glenn was the most notable debut, with a successful inaugural…
A total of 1,435 couples almost tripled the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people kissing beneath the mistletoe
Four small satellites rode a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle into orbit from Virginia early Thursday, beginning a government-funded technology demonstration mission to test the performance of a new spacecraft…
It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in…