February is mainly known for Valentine’s Day. Since this day is the symbol of love and its manifestation, the holiday is celebrated with a lot of joy and enthusiasm. Although it may be celebrated differently in different countries, the essence ...
When winter comes, there is nothing more fun than sledding and kids love this snow activity more than anyone else! Of course, throwing snowballs and building snowmen can be a blast as well but finding a snowy hill and sliding ...
A tenth of the Earth’s surface was suddenly engulfed in raging flames 12,800 years ago. The conflagration rivaled the one that took out the dinosaurs, and it was most likely produced by pieces of a comet 100 kilometers (62 miles) ...
Planets do not take much longer to form after stars have formed. For example, the Sun formed 4.6 billion years ago, and the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. However, scientists now say it is not necessarily the only possibility. ...
NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge is awarding $1 million to public members who can show inventive solutions to the challenge of feeding astronauts on long-term missions. The Issue Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) generally consume canned or dry ...
The International Space Station still has a long way to go before it is decommissioned in 2030, but we’re getting a glimpse of the “space cemetery” where it will be buried. According to NASA’s International Space Station Transition Report, Point ...
This stunning drone footage shows SpaceX launching a spy satellite and landing a rocket. On February 3, SpaceX’s NROL-87 mission was launched and landed by a drone. SpaceX has released a spectacular new film that captures the experience of seeing ...
Given how vulnerable our atmosphere and climate are to solar activity, these ice cores also serve as a record of solar activity. In a recent investigation of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team headed by Lund University ...
Establishing a new human colony on another planet provides a chance to experiment with novel concepts. More significantly, it’s a chance to learn from humanity’s previous blunders in habitat construction. Even though we have yet to dominate the moon or ...
According to best calculations, there might be 10 million to 1 billion stellar-mass black holes floating calmly and silently around the galaxy. When it comes to counting them, there’s just one problem: they’re virtually undetectable until they manage to catch ...