Space & Missions
May 2026
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Space & Missions
Voyager 2 photographed Neptune in light so dim that some exposures lasted seconds…
Human Factors
Modern retirement was invented in 1889 by a 74-year-old German Chancellor named…
Space & Missions
The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through…
Space & Missions
A Colorado startup just raised $30 million to send a second rover to the Moon
Space & Missions
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found…
Universe
JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the…
Human Factors
A researcher sees parallels between Dante’s Inferno and the geometry of planetary…
Science & Engineering
Apple just rolled out hearing tests on AirPods Pro and hypertension alerts on Apple…
Science & Engineering
The third-largest Ebola outbreak on record is spreading through DRC and Uganda
Science & Engineering
A new species of mosasaur named Tylosaurus rex
Space & Missions
In 1970 a Soviet probe became the first object ever to transmit from the surface of…
Constellations
Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are lining up in the western sky after sunset this week
Space & Missions
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched before Google, before the smartphone era…
Science & Engineering
The satellite that has been tracking Earth's wildfires for 24 years is running out…
Science & Engineering