MARINA Tucked beyond an expanding shopping center and a row of recently built houses off Highway 1 lies a cluster of Fort Ord-era buildings. In these structures which once were a top-secret military … [+5940 chars]
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin made headlines around the world when he stated that the U.S. would have to use “broomsticks” to fly into space since Russia would no longer make its rocket engines avai… [+2070 chars]
In the 1980s , we knew of no planets outside our Solar System. This week, NASA announced more than 5,000 exoplanets. Its quite the leap from the discovery of an odd set of planets around a dead star… [+10151 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]
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]
An international collaboration of astronomers has created the most detailed simulation yet of the early stages of the universe. The simulation can be seen in the video below, showing the first light … [+2511 chars]
By Vikas Datta Brimming over with challenging calculations, daunting data, and formidable formulas, science seems an intimidating prospect for many people. This seems true for both young people -- d… [+8332 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]
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]
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]