When you picture a desert, you probably imagine a vast, empty landscape far from any water. But surprisingly, some of the driest places on Earth lie right beside the ocean. Both the Atacama, in Chile, and the Namib, in southern Africa, stretch along coastlines. So how did these extreme deserts form in places bordered by
Deep in the cosmos, an enigmatic object emits gamma rays at energies more than 100 TeV, an intensity far beyond what we typically observe. Discovered in 2021 by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), LHAASO J2108+5157 is unlike anything we’ve encountered in the ultra-high energy (UHE) gamma-ray sky. Despite being one of the
A Dragonfly on Titan – Inside the Dragonfly Mission – YouTube Watch On On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle about the Dragonfly mission, its origins, progress and what to expect in the coming years. One of the most exciting missions
Scientists have linked a sharp rise in the ground in southern Poland to a buried crack in the Earth that once tore open. That finding shows powerful earthquakes hit the area thousands of years ago, even though recent records make it seem calm and low risk. Near Brzegi in southern Poland, a 13-foot
Scientists think it’s possible for a spacecraft to gain enough velocity to catch up with iconic interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently speeding away from us, by firing its booster rockets during a very close approach to the sun. If this mission could launch in 2035, the researchers say, it could at minimum catch up
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of geologic history frozen in time, accurately dating them or the fossils trapped within them has frequently proven to be frustrating. Fossilized
If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has been an obvious choice since before the Space Age; in the orbit of Jupiter, Europa’s oceans have been of interest since Voyager’s day; the geysers of Enceladus give Saturn
SpaceX launched two more batches of Starlink satellites on Saturday (Feb. 21), and in the process set a new rocket reuse record. First up at 4:04 a.m. EST (0904 GMT or 1:04 a.m. PST local time), a Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When you think of saving our oceans, what comes to mind? Maybe you think about reef restoration techniques like coral transplantation, or making small consumption changes like switching from plastic straws. If you have money to dream big, perhaps you might ponder creating a big robot
We’ve all heard stories of parents who can be a little too controlling. But some parents take the cake. A man recently shared a story online about his sister, who completely went berserk when he tried to help her kids. He said his sister, all of a sudden, decided to put her kids on a