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Dave Adalian

US wants a standard moon time, for new Space Race

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Tuesday directed NASA to create a unified standard moon time by the end of 2026.

Dave Adalian

April 3, 2024

April 8 solar eclipse maps are wrong along the edges

Your April 8 solar eclipse maps are wrong! The new map shows a narrower path of totality (in some places) than previously calculated.

Dave Adalian

April 2, 2024

Japanese moon lander SLIM survives 2nd lunar night

Japanese moon lander SLIM - which set down sideways on the moon on January 20 - has survived its 2nd night on the moon. It has awoken and is transmitting data.

Dave Adalian

March 28, 2024

What are Hubble and Webb looking at right now?

The recently redesigned Space Telescope Live webapp gives up-to-the-minute information about what the Hubble and Webb space telescopes are observing.

Dave Adalian

March 10, 2024

Lunar lander Odysseus sends final image from the moon … for now

The Intuitive Machines IM-1 lunar lander - nicknamed Odie - landed on the moon February 22, 2024. Sadly, on Thursday, February 29, Odie powered down. But it may revive after the lunar night.

Dave Adalian

March 1, 2024

Sandhill cranes migrating in record numbers in U.S. Midwest

Sandhill cranes are arriving in record numbers during their annual spring migration in the U.S. Midwest. The annual sandhill crane count is critical work.

Dave Adalian

March 1, 2024

Webb sees a cat’s tail in Beta Pictoris

Astronomers using the Webb space telescope discovered a cat's tail in Beta Pictoris, one of the best-known and most fascinating star systems.

Dave Adalian

February 1, 2024

Would-be Peregrine lunar lander has come home

Peregrine was meant to be the 1st commercial lunar lander. Then controllers noticed a fuel leak. Yesterday, the spacecraft came home, making a fiery Earth reentry.

Dave Adalian

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January 19, 2024

Can beavers revitalize California’s mountains and meadows?

Officials in California are relocating beavers (Castor canadensis) to help improve the state's mountain environment and waterways.

Dave Adalian

January 17, 2024

Why pee is yellow and how that keeps us healthy

A recent study revealed that bilirubin reductase is why pee is yellow. Learn more about the discovery and why yellow can be a sign of good health.

Dave Adalian

January 14, 2024

Dave Adalian

Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian's fascination with the cosmos began during a long-ago summer school trip. That fieldtrip never ended, and still Dave pursues adventures under the night sky. Dave grew up in California's Tulare County - where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada - a wilderness larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. He studied English, American literature and mass communications at the College of the Sequoias and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as a reporter and editor for a variety news publications on- and offline during a career spanning more than 30 years.