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Space-Loving Schoolgirl Gets to Send Time Capsule Into Lunar Orbit on Recent Rocket Launch
A British schoolgirl who is passionate about space was chosen to contribute to a time capsule headed for the lunar surface—on the first US...
Europe’s First-Ever Private Rocket Blasts Off to Space Thanks to Spanish Company PLD
When was the last time American headlines read positive about the Spanish economy? Well now, thanks to the successful test flight of a Spanish...
Miss England Inspires Girls to Be Rocket Scientists After Graduating With Aerospace Engineering Degree
Crowned Miss England, Jessica Gagen is on a mission to become an astronaut, and has just graduated from university with a bachelor's degree in...
New Jersey Dad Drives 1,000 Miles After Wife and Kids Had Flight to Disney Cancelled: ‘He’s Our Rock’
A New Jersey man upended his life by jumping in to drive his family over 1000 miles when their flight was cancelled.
Nathan Montanez had...
Newly Discovered Rock Art Panels Depict How Ancient Ancestors Envisioned Creation and Adapted to Change
Australia's vast wildernesses are famous for many things, but rock art, specifically one of the largest concentrations of rock art known in the world,...
Bald Eagle Finally Becomes Foster Dad After Trying to Incubate a Rock for Weeks
A hard-working eagle "dad" recently made national headlines after adopting an eaglet, and abandoning the rock he had been caring for.
This is the story...
Company to Make History With World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Launch
A private space tech firm will become the first entity to launch a 3D-printed rocket, which is technically the largest 3D-printed object as well.
Totally...
Mars Rover Team Excited After Finding… ‘Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock. METEORITE!’
Always keen to anthropomorphize their robots, NASA put out a social media post of one of their Mars rovers coming upon an exciting discovery.
Putting...
This Startup Captures CO2 by Injecting it Straight into Volcanic Rock–Plentiful in Barren Part of Kenya
A startup in Kenya is growing minerals by capturing CO2 from the air and storing it deep underground in volcanic basalt.
Far from the fertile...
This Startup Uses Volcanic Rock Dust to Capture Carbon on Farms
An ag-tech startup is spreading basalt rock dust on farmers' fields as both fertilizer and an ingenious way to not only capture carbon, but...
300 Epic Ancient Murals ‘Unique in the World’ Depict Creation Myths on Texas Rock: ‘Oldest Books in North America’
Down in southwest Texas, a unique-in-the-world style of ancient rock art is bringing to life a culture of hunter-gatherers with a penchant for incredible...
China’s New Moon Rock Samples Contain Beautiful Crystal New to Geology
Chinese scientists have found a mineral new to science among the 3.81 lbs. (1.7 kilograms) of lunar samples taken in 2020.
The phosphate columnar crystal...
Helicopter Successfully Catches Earth-Bound Rocket in a ‘Supersonic Ballet’
A space company has successfully caught an Earth-bound rocket—by helicopter.
The launch, last Monday, saw Rocket Lab deploying 34 satellites to orbit before the 'Electron...
Mysterious Purple Coating Found on Mars Rocks in Every Direction
A presentation on data gathered from the Perseverance rover is trying to explain the ubiquitous coatings of unknown, dark grey, almost purple material on...
Anonymous Shopper Buys Iconic Pantera Guitar For Young Rocker Who Always Came in the Shop to Play it
When a good Samaritan took notice of a boy's overt fondness for a particular guitar in a Colorado music store, he decided to buy...
NASA and SpaceX Launched First Rocket to Test a Defense System Against Giant Asteroids in the Future
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched...
Internet Sleuth Solves 45-Year Guitar Mystery Returning the Beloved ’57 Gretsch to a Rock Idol
Back in 1976, when Canadian rock star Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive discovered his favorite guitar had been stolen from...
Mars Rover Grabs First Rock Sample, a ‘Truly Historic Moment’ and Major Step in Hunt for Alien Life
On the 6th of September, the Mars Rover Perseverance drilled down into a briefcase-sized rock with its incredibly sophisticated sample and capture system, and...
Watch This Historic First: Astronauts Successfully Launched Using Recycled Rocket – to International Space Station
A four-astronaut team launched by NASA and Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX made history by becoming the first humans propelled into space by an...
People Power Wins: Alberta Reverses Course on Coal Mining Atop Rocky Mountains
When the current Alberta government tried to repeal a piece of legislation restricting coal mining in the Rockies, Canadians of all varieties banded together...