An unusual rock type spotted by two Mars rovers may indicate that the Martian landscape was shaped by extremely violent volcanic eruptions. The Nili Fossae region of Mars , which includes the Jezer… [+2463 chars]
NASA's Hubble Telescope recently shared an image of two stunning galaxies far away that appear to be interacting with each other. The pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies is called Arp 147. … [+1809 chars]
This week, we have three launches in all, one from Rocket Lab and two from SpaceX. All of the launches will be focused on orbiting satellites so they’re not too exciting, however, it’s interesting to… [+2421 chars]
The fossils of three ichthyosaursgiant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceanshave been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species, a stud… [+3491 chars]
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of course, is that unlike our reptilian ancestors, we humans might be able to save… [+4716 chars]
The latest generation of optical atomic clocks are accurate to less than one-tenth of a second over the age of the universe (13.8 billion years). So why are they still measuring the length of a secon… [+11777 chars]
A new study has confirmed that on some asteroids, the seeds of life are present, which means life could have been brought to Earth and not developed on the planet. The quest to find the origin of li… [+2109 chars]
NASA’s Creative Helicopter has beamed bizarre but incredible images back to Earth from the wreckage of the NASA rover that helped transport it to the Red Planet last year. As I mentioned to cbs news… [+1799 chars]
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the image of a massive black spot on the surface of Jupiter during its 40th close pass by the giant planet on February 25, 2022. As detailed by NASA in a recent comm… [+1213 chars]
The surface of Saturn's moon Titan looks a bit like Earth and a new study finally explains why. Saturn's largest moon Titan features some very Earth -like landscapes: lakes and rivers, labyrint… [+3309 chars]
NASA’s Artemis mission is one from which space experts hope to gain insights that they can later implement in preparation for a future trip to Mars. In this sense, one of the aspects to be dealt wit… [+2129 chars]
In this week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope, you can see an unusual type of galaxy called an ultra-diffuse galaxy. The galaxy GAMA 526784 is shown as a smear of light across the center of th… [+2088 chars]
