HAWTHRONE, Calif. Its been five decades since humans last set foot on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, but NASA is preparing for a return with the Artemis mission in 2025 hoping to buil… [+3365 chars]
<ul><li>Giant asteroid the size of a building flies by earth Monday night.</li><li>Asteroid is officially named 467460 (2006 JF42).</li><li>It was 5.7 million kilometers from our planet.</li></ul> A… [+874 chars]
Thanks to their easily fossilized exoskeleton, trilobites largely dominate the fossil record of early complex animal life. However, trilobite appendages and the anatomy of the underside of their body… [+4340 chars]
The Antarctic ice is finding its secrets harder and harder to keep. Deep below the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice sheet in the world, scientists have confirmed the existence of… [+3789 chars]
ESAs Mars Express orbiter has revealed an undiscovered characteristic of the geology of Mars in never-before-seen clarity. The surface appears to have developed giant scratch marks across its surface… [+1542 chars]
This artist's concept released October 30, 2017 shows a black hole with an accretion disk. Washington: Residing at the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast - a supermassive black … [+4035 chars]
SWNS The Red Planet just got even more peaceful, as the Mars rover made an accidental Zen garden. NASA’s Perseverance rover left some picturesque track marks around a rockcreating a scene resemblin… [+816 chars]
Four-and-a-half months after the James Webb Space Telescope's Christmas Day launch, engineers have achieved near-perfect alignment of its complex optical system, setting the stage for final instrumen… [+5819 chars]
ByColumbia UniversityMay 10, 2022 In this simulation of a supermassive black hole merger, the blue-shifted black hole closest to the viewer amplifies the red-shifted black hole in the back through g… [+8862 chars]