Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast

More than 35 million people live along the New York–Washington corridor and breathe the region’s air. While air quality has improved significantly in recent decades, outbreaks of ground-level ozone remain common, particularly in the warm summer months, when the chemical reactions that produce the pollutant accelerate and stagnant air allows…

Jupiter and Venus dazzle in planetary conjunction photos. Here are our favorites

Jupiter and Venus put on a spectacular performance as they met in the twilight sky on June 9 during a close planetary conjunction as Mercury lurked nearby — and we’ve got the photos to prove it! The planetary trio have been locked in a mesmerizing slow dance in the western…

‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special is cancelled as Russell T. Davies departs the show: What does this mean for the future of Doctor Who?

The BBC has announced that the planned “Doctor Who” 2026 Christmas special has been cancelled and that the show’s showrunner, Russell T. Davis, is departing alongside his production company Bad Wolf. The cancellation of the special, a mostly annual release since “Doctor Who” returned to the airwaves in 2005, is…

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have created a vast underground habitat for life that lasted 8 million years

The asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs may also have built one of Earth’s longest-lasting underground ecosystems. When a roughly 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, it triggered a global catastrophe that wiped out about 75% of life on Earth, including…

‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ turns 10 today, and we think this mecha robot reboot was just as good as ‘Power Rangers’ and ‘Transformers’

Reboot is a dirty word when it comes to TV. Very rarely does a remade show receive its due. While “Voltron” might never have had the same impact on pop culture as the likes of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”, “Transformers,” or “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”, it has…

NASA chief defends all-male Artemis 3 astronaut crew amid backlash: ‘I don’t think anyone should be reading into this’

The four astronauts comprising the Artemis 3 crew announced this week are all male, but NASA officials emphasized they were selected based on qualifications and not to exclude any genders. The selectees, announced yesterday (June 9), were NASA’s Randy Bresnik (commander), the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Luca Parmitano (pilot), and…

Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!

Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning day: Friday, June 5th, 2026 In a very broad sense, Curiosity has two modes of doing science – one centred around a defined science campaign (such as the recent boxwork campaign) and…

James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence the mysterious ‘little red dots’ are black hole stars

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of “little red dots” in the early universe. The team has studied one of these strange objects, designated GLIMPSE-17775, finding evidence it is a black hole star — a ravenously feeding, growing supermassive black hole cocooned…