What does it take to capture a neutron star devouring matter from a nearby star? A team of researchers from eleven countries and ten telescopes, according to a press release by the University of Sou… [+3737 chars]
Texas [US], March 5 (ANI): Researchers from SMU (Southern Methodist University) have determined that a gene linked to feeling touch may moonlight as an olfactory gene. The conclusion was drawn from … [+5729 chars]
Having recently passed the one-year mark in exploring Mars’s Jezero Crater, the Perseverance rover will soon be packing up and heading off to a new and exciting location: The Jezero delta. As the sit… [+2044 chars]
On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk's Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failur… [+7362 chars]
When two neutron stars spiral into one another and merge to form a black holean event recorded in 2017 by gravitational wave detectors and telescopes worldwidedoes it immediately become a black hole?… [+7557 chars]
A team of astronomers announces that they have identified two supermassive black holes on the way to an inevitable collision. The encounter, which is expected to take place in about ten thousand year… [+2820 chars]
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a sun-investigating spacecraft that made history last year when it flew through the sun’s corona, has made another swing around the sun. And this time it was watched by bot… [+2811 chars]
NASA has sent many a spacecraft to distant worlds, yet humans still haven't set foot on Mars here's why. Space exploration has come a long way since Galileo first developed a telescope to peer into… [+4046 chars]
An artist’s illustration shows the Orion spacecraft rocketing to the moon on the Artemis 1 mission. NASA NASA is giving people the chance to fly their name around the moon on an upcoming mission la… [+1524 chars]
NASA is seeking input from the public to help develop new and innovative ideas for waste management during upcoming Mars missions. The U.S. space agency's latest challenge calls on the global communi… [+2076 chars]
After weeks of traveling through space to reach its observational perch, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) beamed down its first image of the cosmos. Jospeh DePasquale, senior data imaging d… [+7438 chars]
A team of astronomers announces that they have identified two supermassive black holes on the way to an inevitable collision. The encounter, which is expected to take place in about ten thousand year… [+2820 chars]