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]
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]
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]
Editor’s note: Experts expect the crash did occur as predicted, but are still waiting for visual verification. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed … [+7334 chars]
WHEN ex-racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart discovered his wife Helen had dementia, he was shocked to learn there was no cure for it. Even worse, there was little hope on the horizon. When my wife was… [+9777 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]
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]
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]
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 — despite their pare… [+8228 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]
