A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe

Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms, ...
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A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth

To prevent such costly construction errors, in 2015 scientists in the International Association of Geodesy voted to adopt the International ...
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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station

It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles above our planet’s ...
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The pursuit of better drugs through orbital space crystals

In The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton wrote about killer alien space crystals that are (spoiler alert) ultimately stymied by Earth’s ...
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SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures

SpaceX founder Elon Musk also wants Starship to fly to Mars, which will, likewise, require a mastery of in-space refueling. ...
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It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System ...
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Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time

That’s what DESI was designed to do: take precise measurements of the apparent size of these bubbles (both near and ...
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Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge

The space science community has long prided itself on its ability to inspire and move people of all backgrounds, but ...
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission prepares to help bring the Starliner astronauts home

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission was originally scheduled to launch Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, before NASA ...
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The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk

On April 4th, 2022, we learned that Musk had purchased enough shares of Twitter to become its largest individual shareholder. ...
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