Space

Scientists are growing grapes in space to save Earth’s wine supply

Wired UK: At approximately 8pm EST on Wednesday, January 13, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Florida. Having successfully dropped off its three tons of hardware and supplies to the International…

Atomically Precise Sensors Could Detect Another Earth

IEEE Spectrum: Gazing into the dark and seemingly endless night sky above, people have long wondered: Is there another world like ours out there, somewhere? Thanks to new sensors that we and other astronomers are developing, our generation may be the…

The Pierre Auger Observatory shares 10% of data

Symmetry Magazine: In Argentina, far to the west of Buenos Aires, sits the world’s largest cosmic-ray detector: the Pierre Auger Observatory. It’s made up of an array of 1600 detector stations, each spaced about a mile apart. From the mountains that…

This is the first image taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover

Technology Review: NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars. The spacecraft survived its journey through the Martian atmosphere and made a soft touchdown at Jezero crater. Shortly after landing, it sent back this picture from the surface using its Hazard…