Russian astronauts on Monday (April 18) installed robotic arm controls on the International Space Station. It comes as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought the Kremlin's relations with the West … [+1987 chars]
A map of the flight paths engineers were considering for the Ingenuity helicopter’s 25th flight. Ultimately “Option C” was chosen. Credit: NASA NASAs Ingenuity Mars helicopter completed its 25th fli… [+3523 chars]
It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientis… [+3366 chars]
The International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto the celestial body, not the popular Disney mascot from planetary status in 2006. (IAU). The debate had centred on whether or not the little spher… [+2405 chars]
Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. Gravitational waves form when m… [+2427 chars]
A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week and erupted with a medium-size solar flare, along with a mass ejection of plasma, also lit up the northern skies in glowing lights. One stunning image o… [+2945 chars]
In this illustration, an asteroid is shown in the foreground in the lower left. The two bright points above it on the far left are Earth (right) and the moon (left). The sun appears on the right. … [+3257 chars]
The brain is arguably the single most important organ in the human body. It controls how we move, react, think and feel, and enables us to have complex emotions and memories. The brain is composed of… [+3550 chars]
Light on, light off — this is how one could describe the behavior of the nova, which goes by the name RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph). Every 15 years or so, a dramatic explosion occurs in the constellation of t… [+2530 chars]
A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know why the seafloor is getting sluggish.New oceanic crust forms … [+3714 chars]
A kindergartener in 2005 would have learned very different facts about the number of planets in the solar system than a kindergartener in 2006. Of course, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in … [+5749 chars]
World-renowned Greek astrophysicist, Stamatios Krimigis, says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.Unlike Elon Musk who claims that colonization of the Red Planet is feasible in the not… [+5035 chars]
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