Most of us grow up knowing that the speed of light, which tops out at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, is the prevailing law that limits how quickly information can travel through empty space. While photons are unlikely to … Read More
A bolt of lightning, followed by something else. A crimson figure blinks in and out of existence high above the storm. If you saw it, you were a lucky witness to a sprite, one of the most mysterious electrical phenomena … Read More
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has suggested that a $100,000 SpaceX ticket to Mars would be affordable for “almost anyone.” Given that many people are currently struggling to heat their homes or fill their gas tanks, some have suggested … Read More
Wolf Cukier, a junior at Scarsdale High School in New York, got a two-month internship with NASA during his junior year. So he went to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His first task was to investigate fluctuations … Read More
NASA continues to outdo itself with the magnificent images of space that it releases – but even by NASA’s high standards, a 12-year timelapse of the entire night sky is an impressive achievement. The images were taken by the NEOWISE … Read More
Data obtained by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team over the last two weeks show that the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This is the first time humanity has purposely … Read More