Glimpse

Kendall Jenner and her NBA star beau Devin Booker recently shared a rare glimpse of their relationship with fans while playing board games at home. While the lovebirds have worked hard to keep their relationship out of the spotlight for nearly two years, the model couldn’t help but share on social media about beating the Phoenix Suns’ shooting guard in a game. Kendall took to her Instagram story and shared a snap of four blue pawns in a circle around the board to the end next to a deck of cards. She captioned the photo…

Planets outside of our Solar System are rather dull things. So dull, we can only see them directly by sifting out a scattering of reflected rays amid the glare of their parent star. Even then, the best we can manage is a pinprick to identify its position.  Gathering enough light to reveal intricate details of these distant worlds would require a lens far larger than anything we can construct. One wider than Earth. Wider than Jupiter, in fact.Fortunately, cosmic-scale lenses happen to exist already. Thanks to the way that…

Throughout our planet's history, Earth has fluctuated between a hothouse and an icehouse.Today, our home is supposed to be in a period of global cooling, but human emissions of greenhouse gasses are reversing that natural trend at a rapid and unprecedented rate.  One of the last times Earth went from an icehouse to a hothouse this quickly and dramatically, about 304 million years ago, our planet experienced major upheaval.During the Kasimovian–Gzhelian boundary (KGB), atmospheric carbon levels doubled in roughly 300,000…

Facebook owner Meta Platforms on Wednesday gave an early glimpse of its first physical store, which features a floor-to-ceiling screen for showing off games on its virtual reality headsets and rooms for testing video calling devices.The store, set to open on May 9, is located at the main campus for Meta's Reality Labs unit, in the Silicon Valley town of Burlingame, California. The unit is developing the hardware products the company aims to sell there, including Ray-Ban smart glasses, Portal video-calling devices and…

Ever wondered how the Earth and the Moon would appear when seen from a Martian orbit? NASA has shared an image that showed them together in a single frame. The image was caught by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) when the Earth was 142 million kilometres from Mars. In the image, only the visible parts of the Earth and the Moon can be seen. While the Earth appeared in blue, the moon looked white against a dark, black canvas. The image was taken by MRO's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera,…