Perseverance's Martian rock samples will have to wait a bit longer to see Earth. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced it has plans to delay the Mars Sample ret… [+3177 chars]
NASA has been planning for the upcoming SPHEREx mission since early 2019, and it just reached an important milestone: it’s time to start building it. NASA says all the planning work is done, and the … [+2153 chars]
Astronomers may be on the verge of the biggest discovery in decades a giant, ninth planet may be roaming around the far reaches of the Solar System, and theyre trying to find it. Matthew Belyakov,… [+5220 chars]
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid have made a peculiar discovery in which energy moves from a colder to a hotter region. They describe how a quantum ef… [+4078 chars]
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star's mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data from the Hubble … [+5765 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]
NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter recently completed its 23rd excursion, flying for 129.1 seconds across 358 meters. The autonomous chopper has survived almost a year on the Red Planet—well beyond th… [+1931 chars]
The ESA said the spacecraft will gradually raise its orientation in future orbits to view the sun’s previously unobserved polar regions. The Solar Orbiter – which aims to unlock the secrets of the s… [+2539 chars]
Similar to a light switch, RNA switches (called riboswitches) determine which genes turn "on" and "off." Although this may seem like a simple process, the inner workings of these switches have confou… [+5241 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]
Artist’s conception of the Webb Telescope in space. Credit: NASA The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) will observe the Universe in the near-infrared and mid-infrared – at wavelengths longer than vi… [+1985 chars]
Robotic exploration of the red planet has taught us a great deal about our nearest planetary neighbor, and NASA’s Curiosity rover had an outsized role in accomplishing that. Its successor, a very sim… [+2520 chars]
