Astronomers are one step closer to observing gravitational waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, all thanks to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - a powerful… [+2202 chars]
The dust buildup on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's InSight Mars lander is severe enough to see from orbit. You can see the red Martian regolith covering the lander, which touched down in Novem… [+2706 chars]
At this years South by Southwest Festival, I had the pleasure of asking a panel of experts some big questions about travel to Mars. The journey will push limits of the human body and may take us to t… [+13902 chars]
Samantha Cristoforetti, on 23 April it will return to orbit for almost 6 months on the ISS for the Minerva ESA mission 7 years after its first expedition: how many post-it notes did you leave on the … [+12141 chars]
The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in ageing and cancer. Researche… [+6334 chars]
NASA keeps sharing reports and photos of awesome new discoveries and pictures from space that look simply amazing, which leave us virtually bewitched! The truth is that all these dazzling NASA photos… [+2577 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]
These announcements come on the heels of the cancellation of the ExoMars mission, which was set to launch this year as well. The Luna-25 mission was scheduled to photograph the lunar topography with… [+3195 chars]
From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.Protein function heavily depends on their three-dimensional st… [+6342 chars]
NASA plans to slam a vending machine-sized spacecraft into a space rock the size of a magnificent Egyptian pyramid in 2022. Itll be a first-of-its-kind test to see if they can sway an asteroid from i… [+3681 chars]
A new study led by the University of Leicester and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has revealed a more complete picture of trends in Neptunes temperatures than ever before. The scientists comb… [+2655 chars]
For years, scientists have long questioned the viability of predicting protein functional shapes through the concept of understanding their initial foundational structure or building blocks of the pr… [+4737 chars]
