The physics and chemistry that take place deep inside our planet are fundamental to the existence of life as we know it. But what forces are at work in the interiors of distant worlds, and how do the… [+4209 chars]
Enlarge/ A technician works on the Orion spacecraft, atop the SLS rocket, in January 2022. 225 with 127 posters participating, including story author NASA Inspector General Paul Martin serves as an… [+2683 chars]
For almost 10 years, NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) X-ray space observatory has been studying some of the highest-energy objects in the universe, such as colliding dead stars a… [+6113 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope will zero in on a portion of the famous Orion Nebula, the closest region of mass star-formation to Earth, to learn more about how massive young stars shape their enviro… [+5851 chars]
NASA has announced funding for research into 17 science fiction-esque projects aimed to advance the possibilities of space exploration, including drones to explore Venus, asteroid destroying technolo… [+3449 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope will zero in on a portion of the famous Orion Nebula, the closest region of mass star-formation to Earth, to learn more about how massive young stars shape their enviro… [+5851 chars]
They found some of the specimens difficult to classify. But 26 seemed to group into three types, Mr. Paul said: one robust form from early in the Hell Creek with two sets of incisors in its lower jaw… [+1982 chars]
The search for alien life has been restricted to using life on Earth as the reference, essentially looking for "life as we know it" beyond Earth. For astrobiologists looking for life on other planets… [+4649 chars]
AN OUT-OF-CONTROL rocket part the size of a school bus will smash into the Moon this week. The impending collision has sparked a war of words over who's responsible here's what we know so far. Chin… [+4537 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and one in Austria has confirmed that a circular mountain ridge in China's Heilongjiang Province is a crater made by an asteroid st… [+2802 chars]
The search for alien life has been restricted to using life on Earth as the reference, essentially looking for "life as we know it" beyond Earth. For astrobiologists looking for life on other planets… [+4649 chars]
Astronomers have discovered two supermassive black holes that are 99% of the way to a violent collision that will rock the very fabric of space-time . The black holes, which share the name PKS 21… [+3469 chars]