NASA’s Juno mission spotted a new cyclone the size of Texas during a close flyby of Jupiter in November. The gas giant is already home to several giant cyclones, and this newly discovered storm will offer even more insight into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Juno’s cameras spied giant cyclones gathered at Jupiter’s poles soon after its arrival…… MORE
Job alert! Buckingham Palace is looking to hire a Head of Digital Engagement — someone to “maintain The Queen’s presence in the public eye and on the world stage.” In a job posting on LinkedIn, the Royal Household put out a call for applications for the job with the promise that “your content will be…… MORE
The Geminid meteor shower is one of the most active and dependable displays of the year, according to the American Meteor Society. This year, the shower will peak on the evening of December 13 and 14, so hope for clear skies that will let you see a beautiful show of green fireballs. Unfortunately, the meteor…… MORE
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is on a mission to bring back the first sample from an asteroid, and the team behind it has found the perfect place to collect that material. NASA announced Thursday that they’ve identified the “Nightingale” location, within a crater on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere. The goal is for OSIRIS-Rex to retrieve…… MORE
The Hubble Space Telescope had a front row seat to capture the best and closest image to date of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, a visitor that originated from outside of our solar system. On Sunday, the comet passed within 190 million miles of Earth on its closest approach before continuing on through our solar system. As…… MORE
All 38 passengers on board the Chilean Air Force plane that went missing Monday on its way to Antarctica are presumed dead, according to Chilean Defense Minister Alberto Espina. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, Espina said 32 members of the Chilean Air Force, three from the Chilean Army and three civilians were on the…… MORE
No, it’s not a follow-up song to Lou Bega’s one-hit wonder “Mambo No. 5.” The light from the galaxy known as MAMBO-9 traveled for 13 billion years to reach us, making it the most distant star-forming galaxy ever observed with a telescope. This monster galaxy is considered a giant stellar nursery and is full of…… MORE
The world needs to reach “peak meat” within the next 10 years to combat the effects of climate change, scientists have warned. In a letter to The Lancet Planetary Health Journal, they said all but the poorest countries needed to set a time frame for livestock production to stop growing, since the meat and dairy…… MORE
It’s an automatic reflex for many of us: obediently tapping a few times on a can of beer or soda to stop it from frothing over. But researchers in Denmark have discovered that we’ve been wasting our time. Tapping on a can of shaken beer makes absolutely no difference to whether it fizzes all over…… MORE
Every year, something different captures our attention — but we don’t always know how to say it right. (Remember when we taught you how to pronounce “Beto O’Rourke” last year? And how to sound out “Namibia” the year before that?) It’s OK! You’re not alone. There are words that most Americans avoid saying out loud…… MORE
