by blundun | Nov 29, 2023 | Science
Authorities in New Jersey are investigating after they were notified of mysterious tar balls peppering the beaches of the Jersey Shore. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and Monmouth County officials said that tar...
by blundun | Nov 27, 2023 | Science
Have you ever dreamed of going to space? Well, now part of you can, through NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign. Since June 1, 2023, NASA has been collecting names to send up to space on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Ever since the campaign kicked off, there...
by blundun | Nov 25, 2023 | Science
The world’s largest iceberg has moved for the first time in 30 years after finally freeing itself from the ocean floor near Antarctica — and it could end up causing problems for wildlife. Iceberg A23a “calved,” or fell off the greater glacier on the...
by blundun | Nov 23, 2023 | Science
To infinity and beyond? A NASA spacecraft has beamed a near-infrared laser nearly 10 million miles into space breaking new ground for the agency. The laser, which is encoded with test data, was fired from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft and then sent back to Hale Telescope...
by blundun | Nov 15, 2023 | Science
A robotic space chemist could create oxygen on Mars using materials from the planet’s surface, Chinese researchers behind the project say. A refrigerator-sized machine equipped with artificial intelligence and a robotic arm broke down material from five...
by blundun | Nov 9, 2023 | Science
The most distant and oldest black hole ever seen using NASA telescopes may explain how some of the celestial voids in the universe formed, according to the agency’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A black hole 13.2 billion light-years from Earth was spotted at the...