Steve SudermanA 'meteor storm' of 1,000 shooting stars per hour may light up the skies over North America this weekspace.com - Elizabeth HowellReady to embrace some meteoric uncertainty? The Tau Herculids meteor shower may light up the skies over North America on May 30 and 31. Or it may not. …
Steve SudermanAsteroid the Size of a Skyscraper Zooms Past Earth at 40,000 MPHComplex - Joshua EspinozaAn asteroid the size of a skyscraper made a “relatively close” approach to Earth on Tuesday. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website, …
Steve SudermanNASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Completed Its First-ever Flight on Marsverified_publisherTravel + Leisure - Cailey RizzoNASA made history on Monday when its Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its first flight on Mars. In the space agency's first flight on another planet, the helicopter rose about 10 feet off the ground and hovered in the air for 30 seconds for a combined total flight time of 39 seconds. The …
Steve Suderman42,000 Years Ago, Earth's Magnetic Field Collapsed. Now Scientists May Know What Came Next.InsideHook - Tobias CarrollIt’s not hard to see why the mysteries of human life in prehistoric times is such a compelling subject for so many people. While the last few …
Steve SudermanScientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Foreververified_publisherVICE Asia - Becky FerreiraScientists think they may have spied the universe's "gravitational wave background" after more than a decade of searching. In 2015, scientists snagged the first detection of a gravitational wave, a ripple in the fabric of spacetime. The achievement marked the beginning of an entirely new field of …
Steve SudermanA guide to the solar system’s biggest secretsverified_publisherPopular Science - Charlie WoodJupiter, the planet killer, and three other untold stories from space. Astronomers have spent centuries filling in their sketches of our corner of the Milky Way. But these charts, like all maps, are only approximations of reality. Their blind spots likely harbor some unknown entities—bodies too …
