Science

Water is the future. NASA, preparing to establish a permanent presence on the moon, has detected deposits of water ice on the moon “more extensive than previously thought.” An instrument on the space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found the ice embedded in the lunar surface. “New findings from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal that lunar...

Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn’t look like it could be a haven for life — at least not the kind humans are familiar with.  Despite the Red Planet’s appearance, scientists have wondered for decades about the possibility of microbial life inhabiting Mars in the distant past. Now a new study, based on data collected...

Hurricane Milton is the monster storm churning through the Gulf of Mexico, and is headed toward the populated Tampa Bay region of Florida. Numerous weather experts are watching the major hurricane closely, sharing real-time updates about what’s being forecast as possibly the worst storm to strike Tampa in a century. The wind and storm surge...

Flying through the most powerful hurricanes is part of the job. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters — brazen pilots and storm researchers — journey through storms like Florida-bound Hurricane Milton and work as a high-altitude weather station. They collect invaluable data about storms which are fed to forecasters and their computer models,...

After “explosively intensifying,” Hurricane Milton is now growing into a larger storm. The Florida-bound cyclone is projected to hit the central coast of west Florida as a major hurricane, and for those interested in following or better understanding the potentially historic impacts, you can watch the livestreams below (unless they are dismantled by winds or...

Hurricane Milton, a storm expanding in size, will force high surges of ocean into the west Florida coast. In response, the National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office released a succinct, stark video showing the consequences of the looming hurricane, which exploited warm waters and favorable conditions to intensify into a monstrous cyclone. “We’re going to...

Imagine archaeologists excavating an old cave where they believed they’d see primitive ape-like ancestors and instead found a fossil almost indistinguishable from a modern human.   That might be what astronomers felt when they discovered an evolved galaxy similar to the Milky Way, but lighting up space when the universe was merely 700 million years old....

Hurricane Milton is fast approaching Florida, with the historic storm expected to make landfall on Wednesday. If you are in its path, you need to leave immediately. Speaking to CNN, Tampa mayor Jane Castor urged people in the evacuation zones to get out, warning that it won’t be possible to simply ride out Hurricane Milton....

Some hurricanes rapidly intensify. Hurricane Milton has “explosively” intensified. The National Hurricane Service, after observing the Category 5 cyclone continually strengthen, reported Monday that Florida-bound “Milton Explosively Intensifies With 175-Mph Winds.” This means Milton “is unfortunately hitting the top-end of possible intensification rates,” meteorologist Levi Cowan posted online. The hurricane jumped from a Category 1...