Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world's cities and coastlines, a study has shown. The wor… [+5428 chars]
China's Venus mission might really happen as the Chinese government shows intent in expanding its planetary exploration efforts. China is considered one of the biggest competitors of the National A… [+2796 chars]
Washington: NASA said it has ordered six additional resupply missions from SpaceX under its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract and also placed an order for six more missions with aerospa… [+1372 chars]
On Thursday, a potentially basketball-sized meteor streaked through the sky over Canada, capturing the attention of a slew of cameras and producing some spectacular videos. At around 2:46 a.m., a fi… [+3126 chars]
War always looks different from space. The five Russians, four Americans and one German currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will be able to see the smoke and flashes of miss… [+563 chars]
On 18 February, ESA’s Gaia observatory snapped NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Gaia arrived in orbits around the Lagrange point 2 (L2) in 2014, whereas Webb arrived in the orbits around the … [+1557 chars]
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An announcement regarding the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program will drop on Wednesday, March 30th. NASA has promised that the "exciting new observation" by Hubble will be "one for the record boo… [+765 chars]
Skip to content Researchers have mapped the genetic ties between every person who ever lived, in the "first draft" of our shared family history. Genetic research has exploded in the past two decad… [+6207 chars]
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have relea… [+2184 chars]
Largest asteroids: Ceres Ceres is the biggest asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter and was the first found in 1801, even thought to be a planet at the time. In the 1850s, it was categorize… [+423 chars]
Asteroid 2013 BO76, which was approaching Earth on Thursday, has not impacted the planet, but it was the closest asteroid to pass Earth in 2022. The asteroid maintained its course at a speed of 50,00… [+2093 chars]
