Really beautiful blue crystals formed from my spilled metal finish

“I didn’t sign up to try to measure a new record or anything”, said Matt Carnicle, a volunteer for the NASA-sponsored Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, project. Carnicle measured a whopping 29.06 inches of rainfall on June 18th, 2026, breaking an all-time 24-hour record for the state of Louisiana of 22.00…

When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. The book, published in 1994, is named…

In Homer’s Odyssey, the gods are fickle beings. After Odysseus deceives and blinds the Cyclops Polyphemus, his boastful farewell dooms him to a decade of wandering. Polyphemus, it turns out, was the son of the sea god, Poseidon, who curses Odysseus and his crew, preventing them from returning home to Ithaca. But when Odysseus’ guardian…

A team of theoretical physicists at RIKEN has proposed a new way to achieve one-way quantum synchronization of phonons, the particles associated with sound. The approach stands out because it remains highly effective even in the face of real-world challenges such as manufacturing imperfections and environmental noise. Many modern technologies rely on components that behave…

This past week, a child stood on the observation deck of Toronto’s CN Tower and looked out at a city skyline blurred by haze. Hundreds of miles away, National Guard troops patrolled a smoke-dimmed National Mall in Washington, and commuters pulled on masks. Smoke drifting south from Canada’s wildfires has become an almost annual visitor…

Some near-Earth objects orbiting in space have a serious identity crisis. They may look like asteroids, but in reality, they could be comets that don’t flaunt their glowing features despite behaving similarly to brighter and more active comets. These enigmatic objects are called “dark comets,” and there may be a lot more of them out…