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]
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]
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’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]
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]
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]
Skip to content It's launching a device that pulls oxygen from lunar regolith. This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories li… [+4942 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]
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]
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]
SKY GUIDE: This map represents the night sky as it appears over Maine during April. The stars are shown as they appear at 10:30 p.m. early in the month, at 9:30 p.m. at midmonth, and at 8:30 p.m. at … [+7553 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]