Enlarge/ NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are at the launch site in Florida, ready for a wet dress rehearsal in early April. 36 with 21 posters participating President Joe Biden on Monday rel… [+4214 chars]
This surprising result comes from an analysis performed by Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix, from the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany. They took brightness and positional da… [+6430 chars]
The forward join and liquid hydrogen tank for the second core stage of NASA’s SLS Moon rocket are positioned to be connected at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Credit: NASA While th… [+2999 chars]
We all chase the elusive runner’s high. Some people describe it as “feeling strong” while other describe it as a sense of mental clarity. Suffice to say, it feels good. But most highs are addictive;… [+5602 chars]
The center of Lagoon Nebula, captured by the Hubble Telescope. Nebulae are the primary sources of helium-3, and the amount of He-3 leaking from the Earth’s core suggests the planet formed inside the … [+3454 chars]
image: Dr. Marcus Jeschke, head of junior research group Cognitive Hearing in Primates (Chip).view more Credit: Karin Tilch/Deutsches Primatenzentrum According to estimates by the World Health Org… [+5243 chars]
ASTRONOMERS have caught a rare glimpse of a potentially hazardous asteroid ahead of its flyby of Earth this week. The space rock 2007 FF1 is expected to make a close and safe encounter with our plan… [+3067 chars]
In the future, you may have a squid to thank for your coffee staying hot on a cold day. Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptiv… [+4436 chars]
NASA is nearing the end of fine-tuning the James Webb Space Telescope as calibrations are expected to wrap up by the end of June. The space agency has gone through more than 1,000 potential research… [+1098 chars]
A novel glacier model has been developed which can simulate ice dynamics and ice interaction with the climate up to a thousand times faster than previous models. This model can be used to predict the… [+7270 chars]
It’s often said that the wheels of government turn slowly, and perhaps nowhere is this on better display than at NASA. While it seems like every week we hear about another commercial space launch or … [+7065 chars]
You might think all important dinosaur "discoveries" are made as soon as fossils are collected in the fieldthat paleontologists instantly know the significance of what they've found. This is often t… [+5615 chars]
