By Natalie Colarossi
NASA’s Perseverance rover, which successfully landed on Mars on February 18, has obtained the first ever audio recording of wind on the red planet. Continue reading NASA Perseverance Rover Records First-Ever Sound of Wind on Mars
NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities and events as the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover nears entry, descent, and landing on the Red Planet, with touchdown scheduled for approximately 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 18.
Continue reading NASA Invites Public to Share Thrill of Mars Perseverance Rover Landing
One married couple was responsible for the foundations of modern code breaking, and the principles that gave the NSA a head start in cryptanalysis. Though the husband, William Friedman, is usually apportioned the lion’s share of the credit, his wife Elizebeth Friedman was in every way his equal.
Continue reading Elizebeth Friedman, The Most Awesome Codebreaker in World War II Was a Woman
Robert Downey Jr is leading the Footprint Coalition, an investment fund that will try to spot fast-growing green technology businesses. He says much of his role will be about using his skills to tell a story about climate change, and the technology that can beat it, to his 100 million social media fans.
Continue reading Tech Tent: Iron Man’s Climate Change Mission
Medical discoveries dominated the news in 2020, but even under pandemic conditions, astronomers kept up their work. They hunted through radio waves for mystery signals, discovered new galaxies, and even figured out which alien star systems might be able to detect Earth.
Continue reading 9 epic space discoveries you may have missed in 2020
A race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine began almost the minute the coronavirus’s genetic makeup was revealed in January.
Continue reading The ‘Last Mile’ for COVID-19 Vaccines Could Be The Biggest Challenge Yet
SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring. Continue reading SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts reaches space station
SpaceX is about to launch four astronauts in the first human-rated commercial spacecraft. Continue reading NASA finally certified SpaceX to fly astronauts on its Crew Dragon spaceship, just days before its next launch
By Peter Dockrill of Science Alert
There’s never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting interstellar spacecraft. Continue reading NASA finally makes contact with Voyager 2 after longest radio silence in 30 years
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places. Continue reading NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon
