Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...
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8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day
The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...
Firefly spacecraft provides striking view of Earth on top of Earth
Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...
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Pale Blue Dot: The iconic Valentine's Day photo of Earth turns 35 today — and you're probably in it
On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...
10 places to pick up a new hobby taught by Latino Angelenos
Our 10 picks for new hobbies taught by Latinx creatives will serve as inspiration to explore something new. Whatever the goal ...
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
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An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...
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Crater-diving hopper 'Gracie' will launch to the moon aboard private Athena lander this month
The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...
Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands
The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...
Book Review: ‘What Fell From the Sky,’ by Adrianna Cuevas, and ‘Oasis,’ by Guojing
In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily ...
What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know
Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a ...