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]
NASA recently conducted a presentation to announce the second round of Human Landing System choices, which will construct a second lunar lander to augment the SpaceX Lunar Starship, which would trans… [+4331 chars]
We know that global warming affects ocean currents in a variety of ways, but questions remain about exactly how this relationship works. A new study attempts to answer some of those questions. Scien… [+2836 chars]
Humongous Asteroids: As per the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 5 large asteroids were moving towards Earth yesterday. Do we need to worry? There was an asteroid bombardment tha… [+2274 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]
Sequencing the last 8% of the human genome has taken 20 years and the invention of new techniques for reading long sequences of the genetic code, which consists of the nucleotides C, T, G and A. The … [+14333 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]
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]
Toronto (CTV Network) -- Interplanetary spacecraft have returned hundreds of stunning photographs of Mars' surface over the last 50 years, but not a single sound. That’s all changed thanks to NASA's … [+2582 chars]
This week sees a close conjunction of Mars and Saturn before sunrise. getty Each Monday I pick out the northern hemispheres celestial highlights (mid-northern latitudes) for the week ahead, but be… [+3211 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]
On April 1, SpaceX launched the fourth of its dedicated rideshare missions, which placed one reasonably large satellite and dozens of smallsats into low Earth orbit. At 12:24 p.m. Eastern, the Falco… [+4775 chars]
