by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
For NASA’s Earth Observatory, Lindsey Doermann writes about new research showing that our oceans are turning more green. Caused by growth of phytoplankton, this shift was predicted by climate-change models, although researchers can’t yet pinpoint the specific...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Been there, done that. So why send humans back to the Moon? asks Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) in an opinion piece for Nature. Politics and technology, not science, are (again) driving forces behind the latest Moon mission, Artemis I, which launched in November. But...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
In advance of the James Webb Space Telescope’s successful launch at the end of the year, Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) explained in Nature why astronomers everywhere are champing at the bit to use this new tool, which is more than 100 times more powerful than the...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Alan Boyle has all the news from a busy week for NASA. For GeekWire, Alan reports on the historic trip of a US-made spaceship taking astronauts to the International Space Station. The launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon was scrubbed at the last minute a few days before,...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Hillary Lauren, Science Slug, reports from a tour to the NASA Space Center in Houston. Check out Hillary’s photos of massive rockets, old-school computer consoles, and that blue Texas sky. Visit again later when Hillary promises to tell us about moon rocks and women...