Science & Nature

It’s hard enough in the first place having to drive an astronomically expensive rover around a planet millions of miles away. Doing it from home seems like a pretty big ask — but it turns out NASA’s Curiosity team is up to it. The space agency posted today about how the team has adapted to…

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This month, the Hubble space telescope is celebrating an incredible 30 years in orbit. And in honor of that milestone, NASA has created a fun tool that’ll show you an epic deep space shot that Hubble captured on your birthday sometime within the last 3 decades. “Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7…

200 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out about 76% of all species on Earth—both terrestrial and marine. That event was called the end-Triassic extinction, or the Jurassic-Triassic (J-T) extinction event. At that time, the world experienced many of the same things as Earth is facing now, including a warming climate and the…

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s a lot of universe to explore out there, so we’re constantly finding the next “oldest” or “biggest” object or phenomenon. Today, a team of researchers from the University of Birmingham say they’ve identified the brightest supernova explosion on record,…