How to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve with NORAD’s 2025 tracker
NORAD celebrates its 70th year of tracking Santa Claus as he flies around the world delivering joy this Christmas Eve.
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Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite Observations
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 15 min read Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite Observations…
Smile and the world will trust you: How mimicry shapes first impressions
How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those people as more…
Rocket Lab launches final mission of 2025, sends Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit (video)
Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit.
Keeping Up with PACE: Summary of the 2025 PAC3 Meeting
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 13 min read Keeping Up with PACE: Summary of the 2025 PAC3 Meeting…
Providing AI training leads to more critical and ethical use by university students
No longer a technological novelty, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become a common tool for everyday academic tasks among the university community. In view of this, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has carried out a research project to establish…
Working in groups can help Republicans and Democrats agree on controversial content moderation online
Over half of Americans believe tech companies should take action to restrict extremely violent content on their platforms, according to Pew data, yet even trained content moderators consistently disagree in their decisions about how to classify hate speech and offensive…
Meet Qingzhou, China’s next-gen cargo craft for its Tiangong space station (video)
Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China’s Tianzhou freighter.
NASA Kennedy Top 20 Stories of 2025
NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20,…
The simulation hypothesis: Mathematical framework redefines what it means for one universe to simulate another
The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few attempts have been…