Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese technology-demonstrating satellite tonight (Dec. 6), and you can watch the action live.
A 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron rocket is scheduled to launch the “RAISE and Shine” mission from Rocket Lab‘s New…
Neutron stars are what remain after giant stars collapse, leaving behind a body so dense that its core crushes protons and neutrons into a tightly packed soup. These objects cool very slowly over millions of years, releasing their trapped heat…
Ant hills made by the yellow meadow ant, and the heaped leaf-litter nests of, always look impressive but pale into insignificance compared with the subterranean cities of exotic species.
In Central and South America, the interconnected…
Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 billion years old.
The galaxy, named Alaknanda, appears in…
Northern U.S. states may glimpse Northern Lights overnight on Sunday, Dec. 7 through Monday, Dec. 8, according to a forecast by space weather experts at NOAA. In the wake of a coronal mass ejection on the sun last week, a G1-rated…
Catch Jupiter’s famous icy moon Europa as it treks across the gas giant’s disk overnight, led by its shadow.
Europa and its shadow transit the…
The red planet has a new, fun little surprise for us. While trundling through an ancient channel last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover literally ran over a rock on Mars and cracked it open, only to find bright yellow crystals glinting inside….
Milestone: Chemotherapy agent sends leukemia into remission
Date: Dec. 6, 1954
Where: Sloan Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York
Who: Gertrude Elion and colleagues
In 1954, researchers described a new drug that sent…
