There’s a lot we still don’t know about the Sun. While missions like NASA’s Parker Probe will help enlighten us, scientists continue to discover new things that are quite baffling. In fact, scientist… [+3075 chars]
There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and lander scoped out the surface of our pla… [+7919 chars]
By Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — As NASA prepares to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s, figuring out how to keep astronauts healthy during the thr… [+2931 chars]
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7, 2022, when the spacecraft wa… [+5494 chars]
There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and lander scoped out the surface of our pla… [+7919 chars]
There’s a lot we still don’t know about the Sun. While missions like NASA’s Parker Probe will help enlighten us, scientists continue to discover new things that are quite baffling. In fact, scientist… [+3075 chars]
This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other. Credit: LIGO/T. Pyle Gravitational waves are distor… [+1987 chars]
DULUTH Watching the sun has been a lot of fun lately. It wasn't that long ago that days and even weeks would go by without seeing a spot. Now they're common. That's because we're past the minimum of … [+1935 chars]
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is returning to Earth this week after setting a new record for the longest continuous spaceflight by an American. On March 15, Vande Hei broke the existing 340-day reco… [+2332 chars]
Size comparison of Kepler-442b with Earth. This is a potential candidate for first exoplanet observation by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk: Helgo… [+3613 chars]
Scientists have discovered that the speed of sound on Mars is very different from the speed recorded here on Earth. The discovery was announced by Baptiste Chaide, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos… [+2565 chars]
NASA has confirmed that there are now more than 5,000 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. "It's not just a number," said Jessie Christiansen, science lead for the archive and a research scie… [+3551 chars]