All About Everything

NASA applauds Artemis 1 moon rocket's fueling milestone, mulls readiness for launch

And with a new moonshot comes a new moon rocket. SLS has never flown, and the recent wet dress rehearsal was supposed to be its last hurdle. But whether or not Artemis 1 is actually ready to fly now is not yet clear.

On alien worlds, exotic form of ice may transport nutrients to hidden oceans

Any potential alien life in the waters of vast ocean worlds could receive vital nutrients from their planets' molten cores via thick layers of exotic high-pressure ice that can transport salts, new research has found.

Gaia's Multi-Billion-Star Map of the Milky Way Keeps Getting Better

Scientific American

Scientific American

On June 13, at 6 A.M. ET, astronomers around the world descended on the Gaia Archive: the landing Web page for every last bit of data from the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Milky Way–mapping Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (Gaia) ...

The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know

NPR

NPR

There's a vast world around us that animals can perceive — but humans can't. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong uses the example of a dark room: Though it might seem that there would be little to detect in the darkness, a bird in the room ...

NASA Mars Rover Snaps Flaky, Funky 'Scientifically Fascinating' Landscape

Curiosity's mast-mounted camera snapped a landscape view of the sulfate-bearing region of the Gale Crater on May 2, 2022. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Wild blue spiral in New Zealand sky likely made by SpaceX rocket (photo)

A New Zealand resident spotted a "bizarre but very cool" blue spiral above her house following a SpaceX launch on Sunday (June 19). Clare Rehill photographed the spiral in the sky above Queenstown, a town on New Zealand's South Island.

Popular Science

I ate the lobster, but suspected the squeamish had it right. It's hard to look into the eyes of your food and not wonder what it might be like to end in a pot of boiling water.

Five planets are lining up in the sky in June. Here's how to see it.

CBS News

CBS News

Five planets are moving into a rare alignment, which will be visible from Earth this week. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are lining up — in that order — for the first time since December 2004. On Friday, June 24, the phenomenon will be the ...

Hubble Spots Glittering 'Sea of Sequins' Crammed With Stars

Here's your moment of space beauty for the day. The Hubble Space Telescope stared at the constellation Sagittarius and spotted a luminous collection of stars. NASA highlighted the view of Terzan 9, a globular cluster, on Wednesday.

NASA's moon megarocket is supposed to launch soon. Here's the holdup.

Mashable

Mashable

NASA wants to use the rocket for Artemis I, the first U.S. lunar mission since the Apollo era. The enormous 5.75 million-pound rocket will eventually send the new Orion spacecraft around the moon — without astronauts the first time — then splash down in ...