by Asha C. Gilbert Jessica Watkins made history on Wednesday by becoming the first Black woman launched into space for an extended mission on the International Space Station. Watkins, 33, and three … [+2166 chars]
Scientists are on the fence as to whether solar or nuclear should be the preferred source of power for small teams visiting the Martian surface. New research suggests both options are good, with geog… [+6989 chars]
New York (CNN Business)A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts including the first Black woman to join the International Space Station crew successfully docked with the ISS Wednesday evening, kicki… [+5766 chars]
An asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building will fly past the Earth tonight, according to NASA, but it won't get close enough to cause any problems. The space rock, named 418135 (2008 AG… [+5370 chars]
A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes. The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is the stronges… [+3561 chars]
The first solar eclipse of 2022 arrives this week across parts of the Southern Hemisphere — here's how you can watch the event live online from other parts of the world. On April 30, a partial sola… [+3844 chars]
ByJet Propulsion LaboratoryApril 27, 2022 Eyeing some of the components that enabled the Perseverance rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. … [+8742 chars]
SpaceX launched a group of astronauts for NASA early on Wednesday morning, with Elon Musk's company now having sent 26 people to orbit in less than two years. The Crew-4 mission, the company's seven… [+2453 chars]
Artist Impression of a superconducting chip. Credit: TU Delft Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have discovered one-way superconducti… [+5280 chars]
Jupiter's super-volcanic moon boasts grand, meandering dunes created not by wind but by lava flows beneath the moon's surface, a new study shows. Io is Jupiter 's third-largest moon and the inne… [+3221 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… [+9273 chars]
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