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]
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]
Yes, get your jokes in now The planet Uranus, seen from Voyager 2. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech The space science community thinks the time is ripe to study Uranus in depth and theyre being serious. A … [+8433 chars]
The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 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]
New research might have finally found why one side of the Moon's surface is different from the other. The research revealed that one side of the Moon's surface might have been impacted when a massi… [+2046 chars]
The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 chars]
For the first time, scientists have found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The researchers identified a distant object with properties that lie between those of a galaxy and those of a so-… [+4654 chars]
The planets in our solar system are all unique in their way. In terms of temperature, no two planets have the same one since it is the result of various processes. Generally, a planets temperature is… [+7459 chars]
(Photo: Rocket Lab) Tomorrow a private aerospace company will attempt to snatch its own rocket booster out of mid air using a helicopter. Southern California-based Rocket Lab builds and launches a v… [+2156 chars]
A fireball may have dropped some leftovers on Canada after sizzling through the sky. getty The Sunday night sky over Ontario was lit up by literal fire in the sky, which probably then dropped actu… [+1955 chars]
NASAs team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California is celebrating one year since its plucky Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight … [+3156 chars]