We'll have to wait a little longer to see SpaceX's next two astronaut missions take flight. Elon Musk's company is gearing up to launch two crewed missions to the International Space Station: Ax-1 … [+2495 chars]
An asteroid took astronomers by surprise recently, hitting Earth's atmosphere just two hours after it was first detected by scientists. Thankfully, the stone wasn't big enough to cause a major catast… [+2846 chars]
NASAs new James Webb telescope has reached another alignment milestone and sent back its clearest image of a star to date. More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful … [+2143 chars]
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to c… [+6906 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]
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent Image source, DIMITAR DILKOFF Image caption, Fires in Siberia have contributed to brown carbon plumes in the Arctic The dense plumes of wildfire smoke seen… [+4321 chars]
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximizing their strength and their speed. Almost all vertebrates are… [+3630 chars]
Researchers may have solved Professor Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradoxa mystery that has puzzled scientists for almost half a century. According to two new studies, something called "quan… [+3453 chars]
We just received more evidence that life on Earth may have started with RNA, with scientists in Japan creating RNA that can replicate, diversify, and develop complexity all on its own. Long before E… [+4941 chars]
Astronomers searching for our solar system's elusive Planet Nine — a theoretical world that may lurk deep in a cloud of icy rocks far beyond the orbit of Neptune — have come up short once again. In … [+2895 chars]
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]
Babu G. Ranganathan*(B.A. Bible/Biology) THE CELL could not have evolved. A partially evolved cell would quickly disintegrate under the effects of random forces of the environment, especially withou… [+5182 chars]
