Tag: space

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, ...

Nearly one year ago, NASA flung the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour. It was ...

And nations should avoid cluttering those spots with mechanical detritus, which could complicate future missions. Like campers heading into the ...

According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from ...

When Suzanne Dodd’s team transmitted a routine command to Voyager 2 on July 21, the unthinkable happened: They accidentally sent ...

I discovered over the past several years that I’m not as rare as I once thought I was. There are ...

After Euclid blasts off, it will travel to a spot called Lagrange point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, ...

The NANOGrav team was essentially able to turn the Milky Way into a giant gravitational wave detector by measuring the ...

Throngs of satellites are streaking across the Hubble Space Telescope’s field of view, leaving what look like scratch marks on ...

This contraction means the upper atmosphere is becoming less dense, which in turn reduces drag on satellites and other objects ...