SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires. It's the first NASA crew comprised equally of… [+2274 chars]
China will aim to crash a spaceship into an asteroid as part of plans for a planetary defence system that could one day stop a space rock smashing into Earth. The deflection mission, which is intend… [+10266 chars]
Credit: Chenqiao Zhu et al, Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (2022) Kumquat (Fortunella spp.), a common fruit crop and ornamental tree, is characterized by small, flavorful, and bri… [+4933 chars]
Michigan State University’s Seth Jacobson and colleagues in China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar system evolved. Specifically, how did… [+8280 chars]
image: Artist Impression of a superconducting chipview more Credit: TU Delft Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at TU Delft have discovered one-way superconductivity without mag… [+9765 chars]
While the debate between solar energy and nuclear energy continues on Earth, some people are looking to the stars. When it comes to space exploration, scientists are always trying to optimise the wa… [+3021 chars]
Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX capsule, two days after the last crew to… [+2615 chars]
Were Neanderthals really as well adapted to a life in the cold as previously assumed, or did they prefer more temperate environmental conditions during the last Ice Age? To answer these questions, it… [+3579 chars]
NASA’s marsquake-hunting lander has detected its two largest seismic events to date and on the far side of the planet, no less. NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars in November 2018 carryi… [+3793 chars]
An analysis of hundreds of hours of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed what makes some exoplanets incredibly hot. In a new study, a team of scientists analyzed the atmospheres o… [+2891 chars]
A fresh examination of meteorites that landed in Australia, Canada and the United States is bolstering the notion that such objects may have delivered to Earth early in its history chemical ingredien… [+4233 chars]
iStockphoto <ul><li>“Potentially hazardous” Asteroid 418135 (2008 AG33) will fly into Earth’s orbit on Thursday, April 28, says NASA.</li><li>Asteroid 418135 could be about twice the size of the Emp… [+1991 chars]
