Eva Botkin-Kowacki

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Giganotosaurus vs. T. rex in a screenshot from Jurassic World Dominion

Giganotosaurus vs. T. rex: Who would win in a battle of the big dinosaurs?

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

A sweating young man with a yellow towel.

How does your body stay balanced inside? Thank homeostasis.

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

HIV, seen in red budding particles, is among the deadliest viruses.

The deadliest viruses in human history, from COVID to smallpox

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

A type of star known as a luminous blue variable.

Your guide to the types of stars, from their dusty births to violent deaths

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

The icy white south pole of Mars, with red soil all around.

Want to travel to Mars? Here’s how long the trip could take.

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

The Earth's atmosphere from the ISS, with the moon in the background, showing clearly defined layers between the planet and space, where the Karman line separates the two.

Where does Earth end and space begin? The Karman line is only one answer.

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

How old is Earth? The age depends on the formation of the moon.

How old is Earth? It’s a surprisingly tough question to answer.

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Solar flare imaged by NASA and ESA solar orbiter in 2022

How worried should we be about solar flares and space weather?

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

The constellation Orion, centered on the three bright stars of a belt.

Why we turn stars into constellations

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

The moon rises above NASA's space center in Florida.

The moon’s microscopic glass beads tell the story of asteroids hitting Earth

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Deepest image of space with twinkling stars captured by James Webb Space Telescope

Space Telescope

After the big bang, light and electricity shaped the early universe

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Ionsdaleite diamond crystal structure under a microscope

Space diamonds sparkle from the wreckage of a crushed dwarf planet

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

A watery world unlike those that exist in our solar system.

A new class of super-watery planets may exist beyond the solar system

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

NASA's MOXIE instrument can make oxygen on Mars, an environment rich in carbon dioxide.

Perseverance’s MOXIE tool turns Martian air into pure oxygen

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

NASA SLS rocket engine test at Kennedy Space Center at night

This is how astronomically loud a rocket launch really is

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

NASA collaborator crouching in Orion capsule with three strapped-in mannequins for Artemis I mission

‘Phantom’ mannequins will help us understand how cosmic radiation affects female bodies in space

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Lucy spacecraft was fixed long after it launched.

How engineers saved NASA’s new asteroid probe when it malfunctioned in space

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Multiple vehicles will be required to collect rock samples from Mars.

NASA’s new Sample Recovery Helicopters will make flying on Mars less ‘boring’

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

GLASS-z13 galaxy glowing red in hazy yellow stars from the James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam

Space Telescope

Astronomers are already using James Webb Space Telescope data to hunt down cryptic galaxies

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Swimmer in a black speedo soaring off a green diving board

Have we been measuring gravity wrong this whole time?

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

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