Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines will each fly updated versions of landers they have already flown, carrying the same three NASA science instruments to build a network of data across the lunar surface.
The discovery being described is Ocomtún, the Maya city announced after fieldwork in May and June 2023 in the Balamkú Ecological Conservation Zone of Campeche, Mexico.
The first commercial meat in the recorded history of human agriculture that had never been part of a slaughtered animal was sold to a group of teenagers at a…
The single most explosive consumer software launch in the recorded history of the commercial internet reached its 100-millionth user in the specific interval…
The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union was, by every available measure of Cold War-era symbolic significance, one of the more substantial single commercial events of the entire late-20th-century collapse of Soviet-bloc communism.
Half the ingredients in what most of the world now considers its national cuisine were, on 11 October 1492, on the opposite side of the planet from where they would eventually be eaten.
NASA's Curiosity rover drilled a Martian rock sample in October 2020. The chemistry took years to resolve.
In 1966, psychiatrist Murray Bowen formalised the family projection process — his account of how anxiety travels across three generations through tone, attention, and silence rather than open conflict. Modern epigenetics and trauma research have started to catch up with what he saw on the wards of NIMH.
Here is a fact that probably unsettles almost everything a psychology textbook taught you about human motivation: the pyramid at the centre of the story was never drawn by the man whose name it carries.
A damaged mitochondrion leaks reactive oxygen species that corrode the cell around it — so a quality-control system built on PINK1, Parkin, and autophagosomes tags and dismantles failing organelles before they poison their neighbours. When that recycling crew fails, Parkinson's, insulin resistance, and accelerated aging follow.
Seneca wrote: "Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
On 14 January 1966, Soviet chief designer Sergei Korolev died during surgery in Moscow at 59 — and two days later, Pravda printed his name and photograph for the first time. Until that obituary, the man who launched Sputnik and put Gagarin in orbit was known publicly only as the Chief Designer.
Earth has one Moon, but it does not travel entirely alone. A small asteroid called Kamoʻoalewa loops along beside our planet as a "quasi-moon," and there is real evidence that it may be a fragment of the actual Moon, flung into space by an ancient impact.
The last person to catch smallpox naturally was a 23-year-old Somali hospital cook named Ali Maow Maalin, who was diagnosed on 26 October 1977 in the town of Merca on Somalia's Indian Ocean coast.
The oldest verified evidence of the emotional bond between humans and dogs is the small skeleton of a puppy that would have died in a matter of days if the Ice Age hunter-gatherers who buried it had not spent approximately six weeks nursing it back to health.
A shooting star is not a star. It is a meteor: the brief streak of light you see when a tiny piece of rock or dust from space slams into the top of Earth's atmosphere and starts to glow.
