A tragic event unfolded near Louisville's airport, leaving at least nine people dead and many more injured. A UPS cargo plane, an MD-11 aircraft, went down around 5:15 p. m. on Tuesday, causing a massive plume of smoke visible across Louisville and southern Indiana. The crash site was near businesse
The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) has kicked off a special mission. They're focusing on a comet called 3I/ATLAS. This mission is all about tracking this space rock with extreme precision. It's like a big practice run to see how well the world can spot and follow objects from space.
A plane carrying tourists crashed in Kenya's Kwale region on a Tuesday morning. The flight was headed to the famous Maasai Mara National Reserve. Most of the passengers were tourists from Hungary and Germany. The pilot, a Kenyan, also died in the crash. The plane went down in a hilly and forested ar
Mars, our rusty neighbor, has been hiding a secret deep inside. Recent findings from NASA's InSight mission reveal that Mars has a core similar to Earth's, with a solid center surrounded by a liquid outer layer. This discovery, published in Nature, helps us understand how Mars evolved over billions
Alaska has seen a lot of Russian planes flying nearby lately. The U. S. military has been sending fighter jets to check them out. This isn't new. It happens a lot. The area where this is happening is called the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. It's like a buffer zone around Alaska and Canada
Luminescence, or the ability to glow, isn't just for fireflies and light bulbs. It's also happening in some special chemicals called halogenated silanes. Scientists took a close look at five of these chemicals: HT, CT, IT, CS, and FS. They wanted to see how different halogens (like chlorine and iodi
In a groundbreaking development, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has showcased its capabilities by identifying over 2, 000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours of observation. This includes seven near-Earth asteroids, none of which pose an immediate threat to our planet. The observatory's adv
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made another groundbreaking discovery. This time, it's not a distant galaxy or a nebula, but a planet outside our solar system. The planet, named TWA 7b, is about the size of Saturn and orbits a young red dwarf star. What makes this discovery special is that
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just made a big find. It has spotted its first new planet outside our solar system. This planet, named TWA 7b, is special. It is the lightest planet ever seen directly outside our solar system. It is about 100 times the mass of Earth. That is still very ligh
Weather isn't just an Earth thing. Other planets have it too, and it's not always as extreme as we think. Sure, there are places with acid rain and methane snow, but many planets have weather that's surprisingly similar to ours. Take Mars, for example. It's got winds, clouds, and even seasons. Its
