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]
A fresh examination of meteorites that landed in the United States, Canada and Australia is bolstering the notion that early in Earth's history, such objects may have delivered chemical ingredients v… [+5317 chars]
ByMikayla Mace Kelley, University of ArizonaApril 27, 2022 This is an artists illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft firing thrusters near the surface of the asteroid Apophis. Credit: Heather Rop… [+6162 chars]
The sun is moving into the hyperactive phase of its roughly 11-year cycle when sunspots, solar flares and all other sorts of tumultuous heliocentric happenings become more common. Case in point: A vo… [+1883 chars]
Published: 11:00pm, 27 Apr, 2022 Updated: 11:15pm, 27 Apr, 2022
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… [+9273 chars]
Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the International Space Station during Axiom-1. Credit: NASA Edinburgh, 27 April 2022. – Axiom-1, the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space S… [+1247 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]
The FINANCIAL — After three years of shutdown, the most powerful particle accelerator has been switched on today and will shortly begin another run of cutting-edge physics. The Large Hadron Collider … [+8757 chars]
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and… [+5256 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]
By exchanging a classical material for one with unique quantum properties, scientists have made a superconducting circuit that's capable of feats long thought to be impossible. The discovery, made b… [+3948 chars]
