Article Published by: Nasa.gov As dust collects on the solar panels and winter comes to Elysium Planitia, the team is following a plan to reduce science operations in order to keep the lander safe. NASA’s InSight lander recently received a mission extension for another two years, giving...
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Article Published by: nytimes.com Here’s a preview of what to expect in space and astronomy in the year to come. About a month after the new year has started on Earth, three spacecraft will pull into the vicinity of Mars. These explorers, which launched in July last...
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Article Published by: npr.org 1918 should have been a great year for baseball. A young left-handed pitcher named Babe Ruth began the year by pitching an opening-day victory for the Boston Red Sox. Shortly after, Ruth lobbied the team's manager to let him play other positions...
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Article Published by: sciencedaily.com An international team of scientists led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has identified a problem with the growing interest in extractable resources on the moon: there aren't enough of them to go around. With no international policies or...
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Article Published by: ourdoorlife.com Mental toughness is the first line of defense when you’re faced with life or death. The skills you’ve acquired and gear in your pack are often the difference in making it through a life and death situation. But you first need the mental...
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Article Published by: Article Published by: nasa.gov In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar. New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory help support the idea that it is also a pulsar, meaning it...
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Article Published by: npr.org When Linsey Marr looks back at the beginning of 2020, what strikes her is how few people in the world really understood how viruses can travel through the air. "In the past year, we've come farther in understanding airborne transmission, or at least...
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Article Published by: astronomy.com Earth’s atmosphere provides a safety buffer that protects us from (most) incoming space rocks. As Earth circles the Sun, our planet regularly passes through dust and debris left in our path by passing comets and asteroids. Each time this happens, Earth experiences a...
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Article Published by: bbc.com Video chat is helping us stay employed and connected. But what makes it so tiring - and how can we reduce ‘Zoom fatigue’? Your screen freezes. There’s a weird echo. A dozen heads stare at you. There are the work huddles, the one-on-one...
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Article Published by: forbes.com Fritillaria delavayi is a perennial herb with 3 or 5 leaves - varying in color from grey to brown to green - closely arranged along the stem, native to China’s Hengduan mountains. The species colonizes rocky slopes, sandy and gravelly places at...
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