Let's take the #SpaceSnap throwback to six years ago with NASA's Hubble! The Hubble Space Telescope is already 32 years old this year. When NASA celebrated its 26th birthday six years ago, astronome… [+3186 chars]
The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA’s InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The pair are the first recorded events to o… [+3276 chars]
In Steven Spielbergs iconic film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), the lead character played by Harrison Ford warns of the dangers of small scorpions, claiming that when it c… [+2439 chars]
A controversial Harvard scientist says he wants to launch an investigation into a meteor that he believes is actually alien technology lying at the bottom of Pacific Ocean. Last week, the US Space C… [+4100 chars]
The surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa is criss-crossed with double ridges which are similar to those in Greenland’s ice sheet. Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa indicat… [+4191 chars]
The first solar eclipse of 2022 will occur on April 30. There will be a narrow band of visibility over parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Or,… [+4255 chars]
Extremely fast cosmic explosions puzzling scientists may be outbursts arising from dying stars, new research suggests. Dubbed fast blue optical transients (FBOTs), because of their "blue" heat and v… [+3546 chars]
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5477, an archetypal dwarf galaxy in the Messier 101 group. Without obvious structure, but with visible signs of ongoing starbirth, NGC 5477 looks much like an arch… [+3084 chars]
Astrobotic revealed the flight model of its new Peregrine lunar lander on April 20th, 2022. The new model differs from previous test models and is the actual version of Peregrine that will fly to th… [+1852 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Rover first landed on the surface of Mars just over a year ago, on February 18th, 2021. Perseverance landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars and, in its first science campaign, has c… [+2067 chars]
Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of an "exceptionally well preserved" ancient animal near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario, Canada, in a stone quarry that is such … [+3933 chars]
NASA says that Hubble Space Telescope has found a giant comet with the largest nucleus ever seen by astronomers. NASA says that the giant comet named Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 UN271) is around … [+1986 chars]