The fireball streaked above Shropshire last week. (Gareth Oakey, UK Meteor Network) A huge fireball that streaked across the sky last week may have left a meteorite somewhere in Shropshire, scientis… [+2183 chars]
The Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i captured a strange flying whirlpool whizzing across the night sky at the weekend. Anyone looking up would have been very curious at its cause, before probably shruggin… [+2691 chars]
Seán Doran strikes again. In this short flyover rendered in 8K resolution by Doran, we’re treated to a detailed look at a crater on Mars. The imagery is from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconn… [+90 chars]
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week, offering a possible opportunity to see a dozen or so meteors an hour streaking across the night sky. The Lyrids occur each year when Earth's orbit takes it … [+4180 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]
A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a … [+6111 chars]
Star Wars turned into real life? A NASA doctor appeared as a hologram at the International Space Station for a telemedicine visit with an astronaut in Oct. 8, 2021, according to a recent release from… [+1174 chars]
The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly SpaceX's Crew-4 astronaut mission have made it to the launch pad. The hardware was rolled out to Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in … [+2440 chars]
One year ago today (April 19), an aircraft flew on a world beyond Earth for the first time ever. That history-making vehicle is NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which landed inside the Red Planet… [+4562 chars]
It appears to be the four-space travelers who as of late went to the International Space Station must expand their space excursion somewhat longer. Recently, a SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket effectively s… [+3134 chars]
NASA's life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover just reached a big mission milestone. Perseverance has arrived safely at the remains of an ancient Red Planet river delta on the floor of the 28-mile-wide… [+4321 chars]
Hubble spotted this wild grouping of five galaxies known as Hickson Compact Group 40. Science: NASA, ESA, STScI/Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Candles, schmandles. The Hubble Space Telescop… [+1924 chars]
