Science
Blue Ghost Moon Landing: What Happened on March 2, 2025
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed near Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium on March 2, 2025 and delivered ten NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface.
What Are Metal–Organic Frameworks? The 2025 Chemistry Nobel
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing porous, designable crystals called metal–organic frameworks.
2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize: AlphaFold and Protein Design Explained
The 2024 chemistry prize honored David Baker for computational protein design and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold2.
Vera Rubin Observatory First Images: What They Revealed
Rubin Observatory's June 2025 First Look combined wide, detailed views of stars, nebulae and galaxies with a demonstration that short test observations could detect thousands of asteroids.
Myanmar Earthquake Shaking Map: What Intensity Data Shows
The USGS ShakeMap for the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake estimates how strongly the ground shook across the region, which is different from the earthquake's single magnitude value.
Lucy Donaldjohanson Flyby: What Happened in April 2025
NASA's Lucy spacecraft passed about 600 miles from main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, collecting close images and rehearsing operations for its later Jupiter Trojan encounters.
What Is MicroRNA? The Discovery Behind the 2024 Medicine Nobel
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun received the 2024 medicine prize for discovering microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Why Europa Could Be Habitable
Jupiter's moon Europa appears to have a salty ocean beneath its ice, along with possible chemical ingredients and energy sources that make it a leading place to investigate habitability beyond Earth.
2025 Nobel Physics Prize: Quantum Tunnelling in a Circuit Explained
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis received the 2025 physics prize for experiments demonstrating macroscopic quantum tunnelling and quantized energy in an electrical circuit.
Parker Solar Probe's Record-Breaking Christmas Eve Sun Pass
Parker Solar Probe passed about 3.8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024 at roughly 430,000 miles per hour, setting records for proximity and speed.
Why the 2025 Mandalay Earthquake Was So Powerful
The magnitude 7.7 Mandalay earthquake combined a shallow source with an exceptionally long strike-slip rupture on the Sagaing fault, exposing a large population to severe shaking.
The Blue Ghost Earth Photo: A New View From the Moon
After landing in Mare Crisium, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost photographed a small, pale Earth above the lunar horizon with a wide-angle commercial camera.
NASA Extends SpaceX Partnership with Nearly $1 Billion for Three More ISS Crew Missions
NASA has granted SpaceX an additional $946 million to conduct three more crewed missions to the International Space Station through 2030, reinforcing the ongoing collaboration between the agency and the private aerospace company.