image: Workflow and computational steps for the SOAP and HRP Methodsview more Credit: Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni The ability to visually represent artefacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic an… [+3908 chars]
SpaceX's Crew-4 astronaut mission to the International Space Station is 'go' for launch next weekend. NASA and SpaceX teams conducted a seven-hour flight readiness review for Crew-4 today (April 1… [+3224 chars]
By Doug Norrie | 1 hour ago As we peer out into the cosmos, into the furthest reaches of the known (and even unknown) galaxies, it stands to reason that we will continue to new objects for the firs… [+2760 chars]
A handful of moon’s that brought by Neil Armstrong during the Lunar Apollo 11 mission was sold for $500,000 by an anonymous buyer, media agencies reported on Friday. The dust was exhibited by the wo… [+961 chars]
An international team of researchers who published a paper in the journal Science in 2016 describing their discovery of an exoplanet with three stars, has now retracted that paper. In their original… [+2341 chars]
The contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, often dubbed the worlds first computer, was first turned on on 22 December 178 BC, claims a study published in preprint online journal arXiv. An el… [+5255 chars]
The ability to visually represent artifacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of anthrop… [+4291 chars]
An event described in the Chinese Bamboo Annals is considered by some a description of a bright aurora. If so, at almost 3,000 years old, this would be the earliest account of such an event whose dat… [+3577 chars]
It seemed like there was a new bit of news on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) every few days earlier this year, but we haven’t heard as much from the revolutionary observatory lately. That’s be… [+2691 chars]
Comets aren't known for being gargantuan, but there are clearly exceptions to that rule. Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted the largest known comet to date, C/2014 UN271 (Berna… [+1457 chars]
Scott Kelly, NASA From now until early July, the five nearest planets to Earth will slowly join a celestial conga line across the pre-dawn sky. These rare, but not once-in-a-lifetime conjunctions o… [+1815 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across Europe has found evidence that suggests the collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves was due to the arrival of atmospheric rivers.… [+2704 chars]