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MarCO: Tiny cube satellites headed to Mars
These boxy satellites, small enough to fit in a backpack, are currently trailing thousands of miles behind the InSight spacecraft on their way to Mars.
September 24, 2018
It’s Mid-Autumn Festival time in Asia
In China and other Asian countries, it's sometimes called the Moon Festival in honor of the upcoming full moon.
September 23, 2018
Here’s what closed Sunspot Solar Observatory
Federal court documents this week revealed an FBI investigation of a janitor suspected of using Sunspot Solar Observatory's internet connection to send and receive child pornography.
September 20, 2018
Elon Musk and SpaceX announce 1st tourist for ‘moon loop’
Musk said Monday from SpaceX headquarters in California that it will send Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa - with a group of artists - on a loop around the moon and back to Earth in 2023.
September 18, 2018
Scientists discover earliest human drawing yet
This month, scientists published their discovery of 73,000-year-old cross-hatchings found in a South African cave. It's now the earliest known drawing and evidence of early humans’ ability to store information outside the human brain.
September 18, 2018
10 years of Large Hadron Collider discoveries
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has generated mind-blowing science in the last decade – including the Higgs boson particle. How the LHC, one of the most complex machines ever created, is helping physicists decode the universe.
September 16, 2018
Aurora alien and storm trooper
Göran Strand captured an aurora over Sweden this week, but it wasn't until he mirrored the image that things got interesting. Can you see the alien? How about the storm trooper? Both are examples of pareidolia.
September 12, 2018
How meteorologists predict the next big hurricane
Hurricane Florence is barreling for U.S. coast, right at the height of hurricane season. How do experts know when and where the next big hurricane is going to hit? It's complicated.
September 12, 2018
Alien-hunting AI discovers dozens of mysterious fast radio bursts
Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen program used AI (artificial intelligence) to find 72 repeating, short, unpredictable radio bursts, from a mysterious source 3 billion light years away.
September 12, 2018
Wildlife hotspots thanks to livestock dung heaps?
Some of the African savannah’s most biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of manure deposited over thousands of years by livestock of wandering herders, says a new study.
September 7, 2018
