Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System

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April 12, 2022

Space Exploration Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar System A high-speed fireball that struck Earth in 2014 looked to be interstellar in origin, but verifying this extraordinary claim required extraordinary cooperation from secretive defense programs By Amir Siraj

Endangered Species Roadkill Literally 'Drives' Some Species to Extinction Citizen scientists have stepped up to reveal just how much fauna is flattened on the world's roads By Menno Schilthuizen

Computing Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative | 04:33

Space Exploration SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS Could Supercharge Space Science Scientists are beginning to dream of how a new generation of super-heavy-lift rockets might enable revolutionary space telescopes and bigger, bolder interplanetary missions By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Climate Change Climate Litigation Boosted by IPCC Report The report says lawsuits filed against governments and fossil fuel companies have the potential to influence climate policy By Lesley Clark,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Inside NASA's New $18-Billion Deep-Space Rocket Is NASA's Space Launch System a flying piece of congressional pork or our best shot at getting humans to deep space? By David H. Freedman | June 2015

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