The gleaming towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for decades since they were first captured by the Hubble Telescope. Now NASA issued the most detailed visualization of the iconic celestial structure, revealing all its dreamlike features across multiple wavelengths of light. Webb telescope visualizes the … Read more
Two NASA astronauts were preparing to leave the International Space Station (ISS) for a second attempt at a spacewalk, but it was called off again due to a worrying space suit malfunction. Three astronauts may be stranded on the ISS after causing a Soyuz coolant leak NASA had to cancel a spacewalk on Monday due … Read more
During the day WWDC 2024Apple showed off some shiny new features heading to iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia (and the other software platforms) later this year, but if you don’t want to wait for these features to become available, you can get quite a few of them now. Is this the end of Apple’s Lightning … Read more
White men can’t jump, but earthly leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been captured on video jumping from leaves in Madagascar’s rainforest. Automation never tasted so good The images were first captured in 2017 by Mai Fahmy, a researcher now at the American Museum of … Read more
Two NASA astronauts will not return from the International Space Station (ISS) for four days, the latest in a series of delays that have marred the Starliner program for years. Automation never tasted so good NASA and Boeing have postponed the Starliner spacecraft’s undocking for a second time, now targeting June 26 to return the … Read more
A team of deep-sea scientists has made a mother of a discovery. In recent research, they describe the discovery of a female squid exhibiting unusual behavior for its species: protecting and carrying around a clutch of giant eggs. The mama squid likely belongs to a previously unknown species of cephalopod, the researchers have determined. Automation … Read more
Following a questionable docking at the International Space Station, Boeing managed to deliver a pair of NASA astronauts to the orbital laboratory last week. The stressful Starliner saga continues as the crew capsule develops more leaks in the service module. NASA is currently evaluating its ability to return the duo to Earth. Sonos’ very first … Read more
A recent solar eruption sent a powerful blast of charged particles and radiation toward Mars, giving scientists a rare glimpse of how these events unfold on planets other than Earth. Sonos’ very first headphones are too expensive for what they offer NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the aftermath of a solar storm on the surface of … Read more
Nearly twenty years ago, astronomers observed a huge cloud of fine dust particles around a young star just 63 light-years away from Earth. From recent observations of the Webb Space TelescopeHowever, the dust cloud had mysteriously disappeared. Now a new paper suggests that the dust cloud may have been caused by a violent event that … Read more
The Pleistocene Epoch – with its glaciers, woolly mammoths and Neanderthals – still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers proposes that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been cold due to a cloud in space that briefly removed … Read more