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]
Add your name here to have it included on a flash drive that will fly aboard Artemis I. Artemis I will be the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. T… [+1461 chars]
No need to wait for an Artemis rocket launch to have your head in the stars. Lego has added to the City Espace collection several sets that reproduce various elements of the NASA mission, including t… [+1606 chars]
When cooled to specific temperatures, superconducting materials allow electricity to flow without resistance. While studying superconductors using the Summit supercomputer, scientists found that nega… [+1509 chars]
NASA has announced plans for the International Space Station (ISS) to be officially decommissioned in 2031. After dozens of launches since 1998 got the station up and into orbit, bringing it down w… [+6165 chars]
The enormous space rock was projected to swing past Earth at a "close" distance, and space aficionados were able to see it live. Asteroid 138971 (2001 CB21) is estimated to be up to 4,265 feet broad… [+3368 chars]
Mars’s tiniest aerial explorer, the NASA helicopter Ingenuity, is getting ready to make its 21st flight, on its way back to reunite with the Perseverance rover. NASA announced that the flight would t… [+2153 chars]
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]
While engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope continue the long and delicate process of aligning its mirrors in order to get the telescope ready for science operations this summer, other teams a… [+2525 chars]
NASA (American Space Agency) recently issued a warning about a giant asteroid that will pass close to Earth this week. Officially named ‘138971 (2001 CB21), the space object will pass close to our p… [+1123 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]
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]