Hawthorne, California — It was 1971 when America’s love affair with the car went lunar. The Apollo Lunar Rover turned American moon-walkers into moon-drivers, allowing astronauts to explore more than 50 miles of lunar crust and craters. “The Apollo Lunar Rover was a phenomenal machine, but fundamentally it had a very different job to do than the…
Wilting in the summer sun, a line of tourists waits to climb Notre Dame cathedral and meet its gargoyles. Four meters (13 feet) beneath them, a team of archaeologists is digging the other way – straight down and back in time, to Roman Paris 2,000 years ago. In 2019, fire brought Notre Dame’s spire crashing…
Days after a meteor exploded over New England, another fireball was spotted, visible in the Midwest to the Northeast. Rob Marciano has more. Source link
Yeast has been growing in the guts of a frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have discovered, telling AFP they used it to make a sourdough bread. More than 5,300 years ago — before the Egyptian pyramids were built — Oetzi was strolling through the Alps on the border of…
The expected arrival of El Niño in the next few months could trigger another mass coral bleaching event, just a year after the last one’s conclusion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned this week. This would mark the fifth global bleaching incident in recorded history if it comes to fruition, said NOAA, a U.S. federal…
A great white shark has been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea in what some divers believe to be the first underwater video of the species in the body of water. The Mediterranean is a known habitat of great whites, but sightings are extremely rare and usually happen near the surface. Derk Remmers, a volunteer diver…
NASA has announced the four astronauts who will take part in the next mission of the Artemis moon program, kicking off a year or more of mission-specific training for the Artemis III crew. They are expected to launch into Earth orbit next year to test rendezvous and docking procedures with moon landers being built by…
The world’s largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge communities of deep-sea life. It is the deepest and oldest known whale graveyard on Earth, according to research published in the journal Nature…
Marine biologist Alan Jamieson had given up on seeing a goblin shark in its underwater home. After all, they live thousands of feet underwater in total darkness and since being discovered over 100 years ago, had only been observed when caught by fishermen and brought to the surface. But that changed two years ago when…
