Since its arrival on April 29, the Psyche spacecraft has moved into the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians removed it from its protective… [+846 chars]
The molecules of life, DNA, replicate with astounding precision, yet this process is not immune to mistakes and can lead to mutations. Using sophisticated computer modeling, a team of physicists and … [+4688 chars]
Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft orbited and studied a comet hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, collecting data on the space rocks structure and geology. No… [+2203 chars]
If you were asked to name the coldest spot in the solar system, chances are pretty good you’d think it would be somewhere as far as possible from the ultimate source of all the system’s energy — the … [+9965 chars]
These dark streaks, also known as "slope streaks," on Mars resulted from dust avalanches. They were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment… [+318 chars]
On April 27th, 2022, a fireball into the Earth's atmosphere over southern Mississippi and caused a sonic boom that was heard by dozens. NASA confirmed the existence of a space rock estimated to be a… [+1776 chars]
Scientists suggest that some staffing of protected areas should be considered "essential services" in future crises. When all staff were pulled out of protected areas in March 2020 the fires spiked … [+4957 chars]
Scientists suggest that some staffing of protected areas should be considered "essential services" in future crises. When all staff were pulled out of protected areas in March 2020 the fires spiked … [+4957 chars]
Looks like fun! Space Ride Charming footage from from the interior of the International Space Station shows what happens to the astronauts inside when the ship fires its thrusters. Thats cool on i… [+1503 chars]
The European ExoMars rover, which was scheduled to lift off toward the Red Planet in September, is now unlikely to launch before 2028 as the European Space Agency (ESA) will have to replace its Russi… [+4655 chars]
Asteroid collisions are a favourite theme of Hollywood disaster movies — hitting the Earth with a cataclysmic impact or deflected at the last moment by heroic human intervention. Now, new technology… [+3834 chars]
image: The microstructures in a radially arranged microarray , as seen here, can perform complex traveling waves of locally interacting posts .view more Credit: Joanna Aizenberg/Harvard SEAS For y… [+4649 chars]