The Artemis program has been plagued by delays, but the Artemis I mission seems to finally be making progress. The integrated Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft that will fly as p… [+1295 chars]
After 341 consecutive days, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei now holds the record for the longest stay in space by a U.S. astronaut. The 55-year-old has been onboard the International Space Station sinc… [+3022 chars]
Films and TV programmes have long portrayed caveman as using grunts to communicate with one another. But a new study suggests that our ancient ancestors likely did not use sounds to communicate, and… [+4997 chars]
During the turbulent early history of the solar system, the materials that shaped Earth might have been formed very far out in space, suggests a study. A carbonaceous meteorite is thought to have co… [+1914 chars]
If a Tyrannosaurus Rex living 66 million years ago featured a similar leg structure as an ostrich running in the savanna today, then we can assume bird legs stood the test of time -- a good example o… [+7712 chars]
China's first 3D-printed dinosaur skeleton is on exhibit at the COP 15 in Kunming. Photo: Li Hao/GT Chinese scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new taxon of armored dinosaurs (Thyreophora),… [+926 chars]
NASA spacewalker Raja Chari is pictured tethered to the space station with the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance behind him and the Atlantic coast of South America 268 miles below. Credit: NASA The Inter… [+2458 chars]
A Triceratops that died 67 million years in what is now Montana left behind a spectacular fossil that is now the centerpiece of a new exhibit in Australia. (Image credit: Museums Victoria) A massive… [+2868 chars]
When exoplanets come up, we’re usually adding to the total number of known worlds beyond our solar system, but not today. MIT astronomers applied the latest astronomical data to Kepler’s archive of e… [+2587 chars]
A challenge in materials design is that in both natural and manmade materials, volume sometimes decreases, or increases, with increasing temperature. While there are mechanical explanations for this … [+5517 chars]
Demystifying Near-Earth Asteroids We have awarded US$44,842 to a team from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, led by Professor Bojan Novakovi for their proposal Demystifying Near-Earth Asteroids (D… [+2233 chars]
A bacterial enzyme (crystal structure shown here) makes a new type of biodegradable polymer, acholetin, which might someday find use in drug delivery, tissue engineering or other applications. Credit… [+2838 chars]