New ReviewOn February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Maneuvering Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a regular EMU...

New ReviewThe Trump administration’s deportation raids earned a surprising new critic this month: the Trump administration. In a filing to the Federal Register submitted Oct. 2, the Department of Labor disclosed that the White House’s anti-migrant...

New ReviewOn February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia fell apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in space. The accident instantly killed all seven astronauts on board. This was the second fatal accident of the space...

New ReviewA supermoon will light up the night skies, also, the Draconid and Orionid meteor shower peak during the month. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

New ReviewThere are some bone-chilling places on Earth, but what is the lowest temperature ever recorded and where was it?

New ReviewA Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched JAXA's RAISE-4 satellites from New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab

New ReviewOn Dec. 30, 1930, the first-ever photo of the Earth’s curvature was taken. This photo was taken by Lieutenant Colonel Albert William Stevens, who was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and an aerial photographer. He also happened to...

New ReviewAsteroid 2025 TF's closest approach was about ~186 miles (300 km) from Earth. It is estimated to be about 2 meters (6.5 feet) in diameter. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: NASA/jPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta

On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited Uranus. Its twin spacecraft, Voyager 1, only made it as far as Saturn before veering out of the plane of the solar...

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just three weeks earlier. Opportunity is now...

On January 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket to help NASA test the launch escape system for its new Mercury spacecraft. This spacecraft would ultimately carry the first American astronauts into space. Miss...

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On January 18, 2002, the National Science Foundation formally opened the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This became the second telescope to make up the Gemini Observatory. Its twin telescope, Gemini North, is located in Hawaii....

On January 17, 1985, the United States launched its 1,037th and final Aerobee rocket. Aerobee rockets were the first sounding rockets that the U.S. launched to research Earth's upper atmosphere. The small, suborbital rockets measured...

The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth's moon for the first time ever. Known as "Project Diana," this was the first experiment in radio astronomy. They set up a large transmitter, receiver and antenna at a...

Guitar World's Pete Emery tests PRS' budget Tele killer, the SE NF 53.

“Dark fleets” (also called the “shadow fleet” or ships that “go dark”) are commercial vessels that deliberately hide or obscure their identity, location, ownership, cargo, or voyage history to evade sanctions, export controls, or oversight.

On January 4, 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon. Instead of launching another crew of...

On January 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the first robotic sample return mission of its kind. It didn't land on the comet, but it flew close...

The European Space Agency's Plato spacecraft has been fully assembled in a cleanroom at ESA's Test Centre in the Netherlands. Credit: ESA – Rowan Moorkens O'Reilly (ATG Europe)

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The Sun erupted with an X1-class solar flare.NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. The flare caused radio blackouts on sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption. The blackouts occurred in...