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Episode description: NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are back home. Hear reactions from the Artemis II crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—as they returned to Earth. For more information about Artemis II, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii. NASA is going back to the Moon, and Curious Universe is bringing podcastContinue Reading
Before a solar storm races across space and impacts technology on Earth, it starts with an explosive process on the Sun known as magnetic reconnection. Now, observations from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have uncovered new details about how these types of magnetic events fling particles to dangerous speeds. On aContinue Reading
3 Min Read NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X PIA26748 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X JPEG (1.99 MB) PIA26748Continue Reading
6 min read ‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions Water ice highlighted Interstellar dust highlighted These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactlyContinue Reading
How much planet-warming methane is coming from water reservoirs? Environmental groups want California to track emissions.Continue Reading
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The Bronx River is home to obsolete dams. Plans to remove them could boost efforts to restore dwindling river herring populations. By Lauren Dalban The Bronx River was once a curvy waterway that ran through vast forests and flowed into networks of tidal marshland. For centuries, river herring have swumContinue Reading
A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why earlier fossils are so scarce. This supports the idea that the earliest sponges were soft-bodied and rarely preserved. The finding changes howContinue Reading
The disruption of global energy supplies is being felt worldwide, the UN’s top climate change official warned on Monday, as conflict in the Middle East drives oil and gas prices sharply higher – echoing the market turmoil triggered by the war in Ukraine.Continue Reading
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