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]
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]
Scientists have discovered a so-called "missing-link" supermassive black hole hidden not in the depths of space, but in archive data. According to the international research team behind the discover… [+2209 chars]
Standing on Earth almost 4 billion years ago would have been an incredibly hot, desperately lonely, and very short experience what with there being no oxygen. Now, new research suggests there would h… [+3118 chars]
For all their death-defying abilities, one thing that tardigrades are pretty rubbish at is walking long distances, though new research suggests that the podgy little moss piglets may be able to overc… [+3316 chars]
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Use this form if you have come across a typo, inaccuracy or would like to send an edit request for the content on this page. For general inquiries, please use our contact form. For general feedback… [+260 chars]
A tug-of-war between neighboring stars led to the formation of two strange types of red giant star, as seen in the eyes of a lost telescope. Astronomers reported finding 40 examples of two different… [+3448 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]
The location map of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Adapted from Han and Zhou 2017. Credit: Wongtszyanyuki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Mesozoic granitoids, ranging from the Triassic to the Cret… [+2539 chars]
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]
The Mars lander InSight photographed an austere Martian sunrise earlier this week. The probe has called Mars home since 2018 and has taken thousands of images during its time there, while also collec… [+1876 chars]