Europe’s dark matter investigation spacecraft, Euclid, is getting ready for its launch next year. Now it has reached a milestone with the joining of two of its major components: The payload and servi… [+2437 chars]
Researchers from Virginia Tech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined that crucial sections of the global carbon cycle used to track carbon dioxide transportation in the environment… [+5491 chars]
Even in our cosmic backyard, the Solar System, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it is not known if they are active. The surface of Mars suggests tha… [+4927 chars]
It may seem surprising, but ice can form on components of the James Webb Telescope, even in space. How is this possible and what is NASA doing to reduce risks? gradually, James Webb Space Telescope … [+2586 chars]
Europe’s dark matter investigation spacecraft, Euclid, is getting ready for its launch next year. Now it has reached a milestone with the joining of two of its major components: The payload and servi… [+2437 chars]
We have been following the James Webb Telescope very closely since it first took off into space last December. Every step of its unfurling while it heads into its final form has been reported on and … [+2391 chars]
If you had an enormous measuring tape that started at Earth's center and went to our planet's highest peak, you wouldn't be looking at Mount Everest. Rather, the tallest mountain would be on the othe… [+2332 chars]
Researchers from Virginia Tech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined that crucial sections of the global carbon cycle used to track carbon dioxide transportation in the environment… [+5491 chars]
Our solar system is a living, breathing universe. A sophisticated camera on NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a spacecraft orbiting the red planet discovered a recent impact site on the Martian surf… [+1619 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance rover is moving across the surface of Mars faster than any rover before. In February the rover broke a 17-year-old record for the longest drive by a rover in a single Martian day,… [+2476 chars]
When it arrives on Mars, the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover will join a growing fleet of robotic rovers, landers, and orbiters dedicated to searching for life on Mars. As part of the Exomars program, … [+5002 chars]
Billions of years ago, some unknown location on the sterile, primordial Earth became a cauldron of complex organic molecules from which the first cells emerged. Origin-of-life researchers have propos… [+3656 chars]