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A New Study Has Identified a Dominant Force Driving Evolution on Earth Today

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Mounting evidence suggests humans are now a major driving force of evolution on Earth. From selective breeding to environmental modifications, we’re altering so much of our world that we’re not only now driving the climate, but the direction of life itself.   Now, in a massive project involving 287 scientists across 160 cities in 26 … Read more

NASA’s Artemis 1 moon megarocket rolls out to the launch pad today and you can watch it live

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The first mission in NASA’s Artemis moon program is set to roll out to the launch pad today (March 17).  More than 50 years after NASA landed the first humans on the moon with Apollo 11, the agency is gearing up to launch its next human lunar missions as part of … Read more

NASA to release new James Webb Space Telescope images in update today. Here’s when to look.

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NASA will release new images from the James Webb Space Telescope and discuss the observatory’s painstaking mirror alignment progress today (March 16) and you can follow it live online.  The space agency will hold a virtual press conference at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) that will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app and … Read more

You can watch Astra launch a commercial rocket from Alaska today. Here’s how.

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The private spaceflight startup Astra will launch a commercial mission for Spaceflight, Inc. today and you can watch it live online.  An Astra Rocket 3.3 booster is scheduled to lift off at (1622 GMT, 9:22 a.m. PDT) from Astra’s pad on Kodiak Island, Alaska. You can watch the launch countdown live here, courtesy of NASA … Read more

An asteroid the size of a bus flies by Earth today and you can watch it live online

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You can watch a big asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (March 11) from any spot with good internet access. Weather permitting, the Virtual Telescope Project will livestream telescope views of the recently found asteroid 2022 ES3, which will pass by our planet just slightly within the orbit of the moon. The broadcast … Read more

Lead Exposure May Have Lowered The IQ of Half of Americans Since 1940

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Childhood lead exposure in the United States is ubiquitous and much more concerning than previous estimates have suggested, according to a new study. When researchers analyzed leaded gas use from 1940 and combined it with data on blood-lead levels from the mid 1970s, they found more than 54 percent of Americans alive in 2015 had … Read more

In The Year 2080, Your City Will Feel Like It’s 500 Miles Away

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When you’re older, your home town will feel different. That’s true for everybody. But for people living today, the changes will be impossible to ignore. We usually measure climate change in terms of rising temperatures. But scientists say there’s another way of thinking about it: spatial displacement.   In a study from 2019, researchers found … Read more

‘Weird’, Long Lost Rocks Could Explain How a Hellish Earth Became Habitable

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Early Earth is often described as ‘Hadean’ for good reason. Arising from the ashes of a collision that gave us our Moon, the primordial eon was characterized by hellish heat trapped beneath a thick blanket of carbon dioxide and water vapor.    Strangely those conditions should have been inhospitable for far longer than they were. … Read more

You can watch an asteroid zoom safely by Earth in a live webcast today

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A huge asteroid will safely fly by Earth today (March 3), and you can watch it live online.  The Virtual Telescope Project is planning to stream live telescope views of the asteroid 138971 (2001 CB21) during its approach. The space rock is technically classified as “potentially hazardous”, but there’s no need to worry. The asteroid … Read more