The Soyuz MS-21 crew ship (upper left) with three cosmonauts aboard approaches the space station for a docking on March 18. Credit: NASA The International Space Station is hosting 10 individuals aft… [+2299 chars]
Some scientists say that our universe could just be one side of the coin. The other side is something they call the “anti-universe”. It’s basically a hypothetical mirror universe where time moves bac… [+3428 chars]
On March 11, a small, 6-foot-wide asteroid hit Earth off the coast of Norway. <ul><li>Technology from NASA tracked the rocks movements two hours before it hit the planet. </li><li>This technology c… [+2628 chars]
The brightest comet of 2021 has disintegrated, according to EarthSky. An icy wanderer known as Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) fell apart during its perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, the report … [+4792 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance rover uses microphones to record sounds on Mars that researchers have used to measure the speed of sound on that planet. Last February, the internet was awash with alien sounds a… [+4745 chars]
image: Ting Zhu, professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, in front of his TEM images of polycrystalline metals and a graphic simulating atomic structureview more Credit: Georgia Tech M… [+7549 chars]
How can we detect planets around other stars? Planets are very faint and small compared to the stars they orbit. To overcome this challenge, scientists use a variety of techniques to find and charact… [+1338 chars]