“The only illumination source on the Moon will be Earthshine, which is a different spectrum,” Deutsch said in a presentation last month at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. “How does that affect the perception of color and tone?” The crew members summarized their observations in periodic updates radioed down to Mission Control on Monday….
Milestone: Prions identified Date: April 9, 1982 Where: San Francisco Who: Dr. Stanley Prusiner On April 9, 1982, a doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, published a paper in the journal Science showing that infectious proteins caused a degenerative nerve disease in sheep. In doing so, he transformed our understanding of how some…
On the eastern, arid side of the Andes, the plains of southern Argentina stretch from the mountains to the Atlantic coast. The landscape often appears dry and brown, interrupted by colorful glacier-fed lakes, but a storm in early April 2026 blanketed swaths of the land in white. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this…
The BBC’s Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has spoken to the four Artemis II astronauts as they journey back home from their dramatic lunar fly-by that saw them travel further from Earth than any other humans. On what is expected to be their final call from the capsule before splashdown on Saturday, mission specialist Christina Koch…
What if not finding something is actually a clue? In the search for dark matter, missing signals in some galaxies may help explain what’s being detected in others. At the center of the Milky Way, telescopes have picked up an unusual glow of gamma rays, the most energetic form of light. One possible explanation is…
This photo provided by Wiseman Family shows NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman with his wife Carroll Taylor Wiseman. (Wiseman Family via AP) AP In this image provided by NASA, the Artemis II crew captured this image of Orion spacecraft pictured from one of the cameras mounted on its solar array wings on Tuesday, April 7, 2026….
Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations. The MCS, an environmental charity, publishes a Good Fish Guide to help consumers and businesses make sustainable seafood choices. On Thursday it downgraded all UK-caught cod…
This week Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record, becoming the humans to travel the farthest from Earth. Now on their way home, the team has experienced tech malfunctions, views like no other and moments of intense emotion, all in under 10 days. To find out about all the highs and lows of…
Australians don’t need an economist to tell them they’re hurting at the petrol pump. They feel it every time they pull into a service station, every time they rethink a planned holiday, or every time they’ve had to squeeze another household bill to fill the tank. But the cost of rising petrol prices isn’t only…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Christina Koch made history this week, becoming the first woman to travel around the moon. The NASA astronaut’s lunar flyby wasn’t her first groundbreaking moment: Koch also holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and…
