The ability to visually represent artefacts, 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… [+3586 chars]
The space race between the United States (US) and China is set for a new and exciting turn as the latter is geared to challenge the mammoth American telescope with its fleet of tiny satellites as the… [+5533 chars]
After spending about 10 days in orbit, crew members of the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, will return to Earth next week. The cre… [+1218 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Third time's a charm? Well, NASA and Boeing Space sure hope so as a new target launch date has been set for the previously plagued Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the In… [+2186 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]
The Butterfly Nebula has been captured in an awe-inspiring image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The nebula is officially known as W… [+3062 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]
Life on Earth could have begun much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. The evidence comes in a fist-sized rock from Quebec, Canada, which is estimated to be between 3.75 and … [+2460 chars]
<ul><li>The average Lyrid shower produces 15 to 20 meteors per hour.</li><li>The Lyrids have been observed for more than 2,700 years.</li><li>The meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Lyra… [+2235 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]
Galaxy HD1 is the newest candidate for the most distant astronomical object ever detected. It is about 13.5 billion light-years away and the discovery was made by researchers at the Harvard & Smi… [+3594 chars]
A butterfly-shaped stellar nursery twinkles in red and orange in a beautiful photo recently released by NASA. The agency's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of the aptly named Butterfly N… [+2117 chars]
