In what is being described as a once-in-a-millennium event, Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15, obliterating the island and generating a minor, yet deadly, tsunami. Before the eruption, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai was a seamount with a peak that rose only 120 meters (390 feet) above the surface of the ocean; the smallread more
The November 10 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station carried the 600th person to reach outer space over the 60-year history of human spaceflight, since Yuri Gagarin’s historic ascent in 1961. And the ‘Rocket Man’ himself, actor William Shatner, became the oldest person inread more
Mars is thought to have once been home to a great deal of water, possibly amounting to oceans of the substance that have been found to have shaped the surface of the planet in what would have been catastrophic floods to anyone witnessing the events from the surface. But while there isread more
Two researchers from the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico are proposing a redefinition of the term “life” to extend beyond individual biological organisms to include structures and concepts that are produced not only by what would traditionally be considered lifeforms, but also to extend that definition to phenomena thatread more