Popular ScienceHow the most distant human-made object is spending its dying daysBy Popular ScienceVoyager 1 keeps giving. And more important space stories from this week.
Popular ScienceWhat happens to your body when you die in space?By Popular ScienceAnd more important science questions, answered.
Popular Science Researchers just measured Jupiter’s stratospheric winds for the first time—and they’re a doozyverified_publisher Popular Science - Leto Sapunar900-miles-per-hour winds rage on the gargantuan gas ball. An international team of astronomers just measured Jupiter’s raging stratospheric winds for the very first time—and they used a 27-year-old comet...
Popular Science10 easy ways you can tell the Earth is not flatBy Popular ScienceSorry, flat-earthers, the evidence is right in front of you.
Popular Science Was there ever life on Mars? Perseverance’s SHERLOC laser sniffs for microscopic cluesverified_publisher Popular Science - Charlie WoodThe ultraviolet “imager” is a life-hunting machine more than two decades in the making. The chassis of NASA’s Perseverance rover bristles with more than a dozen cameras (and, for the first time, a microphone),...
Popular Science7 easy ways you can tell the moon landing happenedBy Popular ScienceQuickly shut down the moon truthers in your life.
Popular Science Perseverance’s giant ‘hand lens’ will scour Mars for signs of ancient lifeverified_publisher Popular Science - Charlie WoodAn early version helped identify ancient life on Earth. Now its successor sits on the Red Planet. NASA engineers have shipped an envoy, the Perseverance rover, nearly 300 million miles to read the secrets...
Popular ScienceMassive SpaceX Starship explosions are all part of Elon Musk's master planBy Popular ScienceYesterday was the third consecutive fiery crash.
Popular Science SpaceX Starships keep exploding, but it’s all part of Elon Musk’s planverified_publisher Popular Science - Erik Olsen“We expect it to explode,” Musk has said. “It’s weird if it doesn’t explode, frankly.” Update on 3/30/21: The company’s fourth attempt also ended in catastrophic failure. Update on 3/4/21: On 3/3/21, number...
Popular Science With MOXIE, Perseverance will try to make oxygen on Marsverified_publisher Popular Science - Charlie WoodFor the first time, NASA will attempt to generate a resource in space. Inside the Perseverance rover sits a gleaming, toaster-sized appliance. It has nothing to do with the mission’s primary objective...
Popular Science Check out the most extensive map of black holes eververified_publisher Popular Science - Erin FennessyThis photo isn’t of your typical starry night—each one of these dots is a supermassive black hole. At first glance, this glittering array of white dots against a black background looks like any other sky....
