Illustration of an asteroid racing towards Earth, created on July 19, 2015. (Illustration by Tobias ... [+] Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images A giant sp… [+2209 chars]
NASA has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX six additional flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) agreements for up to $14 billion. Northrop Grumman, a US… [+2049 chars]
Nagin Cox wants to make sure someone has wished you a happy landiversary. Where she works, its an event akin to New Years or the Fourth of July, though it has more to do with rockets than fireworks.… [+7575 chars]
The Solar Orbiter (SolO) captured 'unprecedented' images of our Sun earlier this month as it approached the midway point between the Earth and its star, the European Space Agency (ESA) recently said … [+2640 chars]
Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals with the submersible Alvin. Hydrothermal vents on t… [+4929 chars]
The first whiff that humans catch of life beyond Earth might be methane, but scientists will need to tread carefully before declaring a discovery based on the chemical. If an exoplanet's atmospher… [+2962 chars]
Around 20,000 years ago, the world was so frigid that massive glaciers sucked up enough water to lower sea levels by 400 feet. As the sea pulled back, newly exposed land froze to form permafrost, a m… [+7744 chars]
Stem cell analyses could reveal how extra doses of some genes lead to the characteristics seen in males born with one or more surplus X chromosomes. One in every 500 to 1,000 males are born with one… [+3585 chars]
Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 milli… [+5119 chars]
Quantum complexity has attracted a lot of interest across various subfields of physics, from quantum computing to the theory of black holes. In recent years, physics has offered some conjecture to br… [+1970 chars]
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting greener as temper… [+5287 chars]
Quantum complexity has attracted a lot of interest across various subfields of physics, from quantum computing to the theory of black holes. In recent years, physics has offered some conjecture to br… [+1970 chars]
