George Dvorsky's posts

SpaceX has won a lucrative NASA contract to build the first lunar lander since the Apollo program. The announcement…

Two years ago, astronomers acquired the first direct image of a black hole. A coordinated observation campaign of…

With Pluto firmly in its rearview mirror, New Horizons is now hours away from reaching a milestone distance, in…

An estimated 4,000 tons of debris—including rocks the size of cars—has collapsed onto a beach along Dorset’s…

Building on previous experiments, an international team of scientists has created chimeric human-monkey embryos,…

Blue Origin will attempt a suborbital test of an uncrewed New Shepard rocket on Wednesday. You can watch the flight…

The latest round of NASA funding to boost the development of advanced concepts includes a space-based neutrino…

Arguably the cutest member of the weasel family, ermines can be found throughout the northern regions of North…

A mother and calf are the last of nine endangered giraffes to be transported to Kenya’s mainland as rising waters…

Update: NASA says its first flight attempt will happen no earlier than Wednesday, April 14. Original article appears…

An expedition working near Luxor has stumbled upon the remains of a lost ancient Egyptian city, in what is being…

Using pigments found in red cabbage, an international team of scientists has created a natural blue food colorant…

We’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has…

New research documents the fastest-spinning brown dwarfs on record. The objects are rotating so rapidly that, should…

A genome sequenced from a modern human skull has been dated at approximately 45,000 years old, making it the oldest…

None of the 109 expeditioners and crew onboard the MPV Everest were hurt when a fire broke out in an engine room,…

Well, we’ve seen better photos of Mars, but this one’s special in that it was taken by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter.…

The main section of the USS Johnston—sunk 77 years ago during the Battle of Leyte Gulf—has been discovered off the…

The failed deorbiting of a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage late last month produced a spectacular light show over the…

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have detected X-rays coming from Uranus, revealing a previously…