On Wednesday, startup Relativity Space successfully launched its Terran 1 rocket from its launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after two previous attempts had been scrubbed. However, the rocket failed to reach orbit due to a failure with the upper stage engine after a successful stage separation. The rocket, which was almost entirely 3D-printed, is […]

This week we discovered that all the water on Earth is older than the Sun, but we still don’t know where it came from. Not from “melted” meteorites, suggests a new study published today in Nature, which analyzed meteorites that until recently were in space since the solar system’s formation 4.5 billion years ago. “Melted” […]

United Nations scientists warned Monday the world is on track to pass a critical temperature threshold believed to be essential to combat climate change by the early 2030s—as scientists resound the alarm for drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions they say are necessary to prevent catastrophic droughts, heat waves and sea-level rise. Within 10 years […]

In the 2016 science fiction drama Arrival about first contact with aliens, the movie’s two protagonists, a linguist and a physicist, meet in a military helicopter on their way to attempt to decipher and understand why the aliens came to earth and what they want. The physicist, Ian Donnelly, introduces himself to the linguist, Louise […]