Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of ...
By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.
First-light collage for ESO’s MOONS spectrograph on the VLT: Unit Telescope 1 at Cerro Paranal with an inset of Baade’s Window showing fibre pointings. Credit: ESO/MOONS team/VVV survey/F. Char (ESO ...
Wade out from the north-western shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, keep walking until the water reaches your chest, and there is a fair chance you are standing on a mosque. In the autumn of 2025, an ...
NASA’s Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement. The Request for Proposal for the Mars Telecommunications Network, posted this week to the ...
Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...
On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called Camp Evans, a small team of Signal Corps engineers pointed a modified wartime radar antenna at the horizon ...
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...
Quote of the day, from Friedrich Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” It’s the kind of line that can sound like a fridge magnet if you meet it cold, the sort of thing ...
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles around some retired men. It shows up at family lunches, on park benches in the morning, at extended-family gatherings where they used to hold court.
Turn up to a Madrid restaurant at seven in the evening and the chairs will still be stacked on the tables. Come back at half past ten and the room is packed, kids under the tables, grandparents ...
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