The Hubble Space Telescope had a front row seat to capture the best and closest image to date of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, a visitor that originated from outside of our solar system. On Sunday, the comet passed within 190 million miles of Earth on its closest approach before continuing on through our solar system. As…… MORE
All 38 passengers on board the Chilean Air Force plane that went missing Monday on its way to Antarctica are presumed dead, according to Chilean Defense Minister Alberto Espina. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, Espina said 32 members of the Chilean Air Force, three from the Chilean Army and three civilians were on the…… MORE
No, it’s not a follow-up song to Lou Bega’s one-hit wonder “Mambo No. 5.” The light from the galaxy known as MAMBO-9 traveled for 13 billion years to reach us, making it the most distant star-forming galaxy ever observed with a telescope. This monster galaxy is considered a giant stellar nursery and is full of…… MORE
The world needs to reach “peak meat” within the next 10 years to combat the effects of climate change, scientists have warned. In a letter to The Lancet Planetary Health Journal, they said all but the poorest countries needed to set a time frame for livestock production to stop growing, since the meat and dairy…… MORE
It’s an automatic reflex for many of us: obediently tapping a few times on a can of beer or soda to stop it from frothing over. But researchers in Denmark have discovered that we’ve been wasting our time. Tapping on a can of shaken beer makes absolutely no difference to whether it fizzes all over…… MORE
Every year, something different captures our attention — but we don’t always know how to say it right. (Remember when we taught you how to pronounce “Beto O’Rourke” last year? And how to sound out “Namibia” the year before that?) It’s OK! You’re not alone. There are words that most Americans avoid saying out loud…… MORE
When the first astronauts land on Mars, they won’t be able to take everything they need with them. The logistics and weight of transporting so much material on one spacecraft, along with a crew, defies current technology. While scientists at NASA have discussed missions to deliver materials to the Red Planet ahead of a manned…… MORE
Cave art depicting a hunting scene has been found in Indonesia dated to 44,000 years old, making it the oldest rock art created by humans. The painting itself is intriguing because it shows a group of figures that represent half-animal, half-human hybrids called therianthropes. The therianthropes are hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes called anoas…… MORE
Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren — and their horrified parents — today: lice. Scientists discovered previously unknown tiny insects similar to modern lice trapped in amber, along with a partially damaged dinosaur feather. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday, provide the earliest…… MORE
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a breathtaking diversity of planets. From the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, rebel ships and Imperial cruisers, we’ve seen a colorful variety of them come into view. Harsh deserts baked by twin suns, craggy caverns, lush forests, water worlds, mineral-coated surfaces, inhospitable ice,…… MORE
