China's Antarctic Base Gets Half Its Power From Renewables And Is On Track For 100%
Antarctica is cold, and if you want to live there you need to bring diesel to keep the heaters on, but China is trying to do it all with renewables.
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SpaceX Just Proved Rocket Reuse Works Better Than Anyone Expected
Putting things into outer space is expensive, that's why reusable rocket boosters have been the dream for decades, and SpaceX is making it work.
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How Many SpaceX Launches Have Been Completed?
SpaceX's launch history runs from early Falcon 1 failures to astronaut flights and Starship tests, with one rocket doing most of the work along the way.
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Elon Musk Is Planning To Retire One Of SpaceX's Most Popular Rockets — Here's Why
SpaceX has relied on the same rocket for years of astronaut trips and satellite launches, but Elon Musk says it won't stay at the center of SpaceX forever.
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Why Doesn't NASA Use More Reusable Rockets?
Reusing a rocket sounds like an obvious way for NASA to save money, but the cost of a SpaceX launch and the price the agency pays for it aren't the same thing.
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SpaceX's Starship Needs To Be Fully Operational By 2028 — Here's Why
SpaceX has plenty left to test on Starship, from refueling to docking in orbit, and NASA is counting on it to finish in time for a much bigger assignment.
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From Pest To Essential Service: How Cyborg Bugs Could Become First Responders
No matter what circumstances you're in, you're probably never looking forward to dealing with cockroaches, but new research may change that.
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Why Are Nautical Miles Used To Measure Distance In Space?
Judging distance by miles is good enough for most of us on the ground, but for ocean-going vessels and spacecraft nautical miles make more sense.
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How Do Space Mirrors Actually Work?
A company called Reflect Orbital received permission to send a test satellite into orbit to reflect sunlight back to Earth, how does this even work?
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Is SpaceX's Starship The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built?
SpaceX fitted Starship's first-stage booster with 33 engines, enough to make you wonder how it compares with the most powerful rockets humans have ever built.
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Astronomers Detected Radio Signals From An Alien Planet - Here's What We Know
Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes, not planets.
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Merlin Vs. Raptor: How Do These SpaceX Rocket Engines Compare?
While both the Merlin and Raptor rocket engines are being used by SpaceX for launch missions, there are key differences between the two designs.
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Why Can't We Always Recycle Wind Turbine Blades? Here Are Some Potential Solutions
Wind-powered electricity is a boon for the environment thanks to its lack of emissions, but what do we do with the blades when we can't use them?
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NASA And Boeing's Starliner Is Going Back To Space Soon With One Big Change
Boeing's Starliner could return to space before the year is out, but NASA has a different plan in place after the problems that plagued its last mission.
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SpaceX Just Revealed That Orbital Data Centers Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think
There's been a lot of chatter lately about orbital data centers, and contrary to popular belief, satellite-based computing is closer than you think.
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Should You Put A Router In Your Bedroom? It's Complicated
Finding a place in your home for a Wi-Fi router can be a tricky task, but the best place is somewhere central so the signal reaches all parts of your home.
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Gen Z Is Losing Handwriting — Here's What It's Doing To Their Brains
As smartphones and computers integrate themselves into more of our lives, many are simply abandoning handwriting, and it's affecting their brains.
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New Treatment For Back And Neck Pain Can Replace Spinal Discs Without Surgery
This experimental procedure may someday spell real relief for people suffering pain from spinal disc issues.
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China Invented A Water Battery That Could Last Over 300 Years (And Still Be Usable)
Lithium batteries basically power our lives, but they have a limited lifespan. That's a problem China may have solved with a new aqueous battery.
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Scientists Just Used Solar Panels To Convert Plastic Into Hydrogen Fuel — Here's How
Solar power is awesome because it's emission free, but it's not limited to making electricity; one team is using it to extract hydrogen from plastic.
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Not Satellites, Not Telescopes: The Next Big Solar Storm Could Be Predicted By Trees
If scientists want to better understand solar storms and the cycles that drive them, they need longitudinal data, which they get from old trees.
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Astronomers Believe The Solar System Once Had Nine Planets - And The Sun Ate One Of Them
The status of Pluto not withstanding, our solar system has 8 planets, but one astronomer believes we used to have a ninth that was eaten by the sun.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Discovered This Little Red Dot Is Actually An Ancient Black Hole
The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most advanced instruments ever built, and the little red dot it saw could change all of cosmology.
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A Popular Plan To Fix Climate Change Could Have An Unexpectedly Disastrous Effect
It's getting hotter and we need a plan to slow it down, but some plans could have consequences that are just as bad as the problem they're fixing.
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Can Wind Turbines Actually Interfere With Radar?
A wind turbine's size is hard to miss, but what does a radar system make of it? The question has drawn attention from NASA, the military, and researchers.
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Mercury Is Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Estimated - Here's What That Means
There's a lot we don't know about our solar system, but that means we're always learning new stuff, like how much weight our neighbors have lost.
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Texas's New Plastic Roads Could Solve A Big Problem With Heatwaves
Heatwaves lately are getting more an more brutal causing all kinds of problems, and Texas is tackling one of those problems head-on with plastic.
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