NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) satellite orbiting Mars has captured another piece of NASA equipment on the surface of the Red Planet. An image captured by the MRO's High Resolution Imaging… [+975 chars]
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune." Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanat… [+3330 chars]
Originally discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or as researchers refer to them, FRBs, are one of the many mysteries of the universe that are yet to be fully explained by science. FRBs are a radio… [+1278 chars]
Fossil trilobites. getty Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - an extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over… [+2410 chars]
Are you wondering about how running changes your body? The sinewed endurance athletes seen at the Olympics are living proof that regular running can have a significant impact on your body how running… [+6606 chars]
NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid gives a space greeting. (Nasa) Talking 'holograms' have long been a staple of science-fiction films such as Star Wars. Now a Nasa doctor has 'holoported' onto t… [+3066 chars]
Yesterday, two Russian cosmonauts spent six hours and 37 minutes in low Earth orbit installing a giant robotic arm on the International Space Station thats designed to work autonomously, move its way… [+2802 chars]
Spacecraft materials don’t just need to have the right characteristics to fly — they have to endure high levels of heat, friction, and stress. In order to overcome these challenges, strong and long-l… [+3928 chars]
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptunes atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptunes global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic… [+8068 chars]
Researchers at Dartmouth College have built the world's first superfluid circuit that uses pairs of ultracold electron-like atoms, according to a study published in Physical Review Letters. The labo… [+4193 chars]
Yesterday, two Russian cosmonauts spent six hours and 37 minutes in low Earth orbit installing a giant robotic arm on the International Space Station thats designed to work autonomously, move its way… [+2802 chars]
The planet is known as an “ice giant” and is the seventh in our Solar System only having been visited once before in 1986. Researchers are calling for the US space agency NASA to conduct an in-depth… [+1002 chars]