A mysterious, repeating radio signal in the Milky Way that baffled astronomers could be an object so rare, only one other has ever been tentatively identified. According to a paper by astrophysicist… [+4549 chars]
ATLANTA (AP) NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday played down recent comments by the head of Russias space agency that the United States would have to use broomsticks to fly to space after Russia… [+2019 chars]
NASA's MRO spacecraft spotted China's Zhurong rover and its wheels tracks on March 11, 2022. The dark object is the rover. NASA/JPL/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series explor… [+1529 chars]
The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar … [+3728 chars]
Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts, from aerosols in the atmosphere to the magnetic field of stars. However,… [+3137 chars]
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radi… [+2159 chars]
Artificial intelligence has already enabled humans to chat with robots like Alexa and Siri that were inspired by science fiction. Some of its newest creations take a page from a hero of childrens lit… [+512 chars]
More than ten years ago, the so-called rare earth crisis highlighted the fragility of the supply chain of these metals, which are crucial for the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Most of the w… [+5869 chars]
The more sensitive the instrument, the harder it is to keep clean. Essentially, this was the case for the James Webb Space Telescope while it awaited launch late last year, after it arrived at Aria… [+4649 chars]
A beautiful new shot of Jupiter reveals two interlopers faintly creeping into the frame. The image, taken during a January 12 flyby of the giant planet by NASAs intrepid Juno probe features a cameo… [+3676 chars]
The more sensitive the instrument, the harder it is to keep clean. Essentially, this was the case for the James Webb Space Telescope while it awaited launch late last year, after it arrived at Aria… [+4649 chars]
A sturdy and stocky armored dinosaur with distinctive plating was discovered in southwestern China and scientists believe this new species to be the earliest well-preserved armored dinosaur found in … [+1796 chars]
