A metallic-looking rock that smashed through the roof of a residential home in New Jersey’s Hopewell Township earlier this week is indeed a meteorite — a rare one about 4.6 billion years old, scientists confirmed on Thursday (May 11). “It was obvious right away from looking at it that it was a meteorite in a class called stony chondrite,” Nathan Magee, chair of the physics department at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), whose office was contacted by the Hopewell Township police soon after the rock was found on Monday…
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Media, Public Invited to Meet Solvers in NASA Space Food Challenge
NASA will announce the second phase winners of its Deep Space Food Challenge, a global competition to help develop innovative food systems for future spacefarers on long-term exploration missions, on Friday, May 19.
Read MoreSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of May 8, 2023
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of May 8 that included monitoring how spaceflight affects immune function, testing a student-designed camera mount, and assessing a platform for automated analysis of cardiovascular health.
Read More50th Anniversary of the Skylab 1 Launch
Clouds of smoke billow out over the surrounding area as the uncrewed Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973.
Read MoreNASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 2 Briefings, Events, Broadcast
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Read MoreThe Mandalorian has forgotten what made us fall in love with it in the first place
When James Cameron was pitching his vision for Aliens, many believed that making a follow-up to Ridley Scott’s genre-defining sci-fi horror was the quintessential no-win scenario. The Terminator director didn’t share their doubts. He was so confident, in fact, that he made his point to studio executives in characteristically bombastic style, writing ALIEN on the back of his script, before adding an S and drawing a couple of lines through it to turn it into a dollar sign. Whether ALIEN$ was the reason the suits gave the iconic sequel the…
Read MoreNASA Provides Coverage of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Meeting
NASA is holding a public meeting at 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The agency also will host a media teleconference at the conclusion of the meeting.
Read More‘Silo’ showrunner Graham Yost on his riveting new sci-fi series and stellar cast (exclusive)
Feeling like a shut-in ready to burst outdoors for a sweet springtime frolic? Rejoice in your freedom to do so as the fearful folks in Apple TV+’s new post-apocalyptic mystery “Silo” haven’t seen blue sky in hundreds of years, let alone colorful tulips. “Silo” launched last week to great fanfare and glowing reviews and it’s a perfectly accurate assessment of this timely dystopian treat based on the highly-regarded trilogy of “Silo” novels by New York Times bestselling author Hugh Howey. Apple TV+’s 10-episode event series centers around a cavernous 144-story…
Read MoreDon’t miss Venus in the late night sky right now before it turns into a ‘Morning Star’
The planet Venus is at its peak of visibility in the evening sky this week. Officially, Venus became an “evening star” on October 22 of last year when it appeared from our earthly vantage point to be situated on the far side of its orbit, invisible due to its proximity to the sun in our sky. It wasn’t until the end of November or the early part of December before Venus finally began to make itself evident, very low in the western sky right after sunset. Soon after the winter…
Read MoreStabilizing Shorelines with Mangroves
A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023.
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