Scientists have discovered a city-size lake hidden deep underneath the world's largest ice sheet, and it could unlock the secrets of the sheet's 34 million-year history. The hidden lake — which has… [+3981 chars]
Nasa Mars Insight lander detected the quake (Getty) A Nasa lander has detected the biggest earthquake ever spotted on another planet rumbling beneath the dusty surface of Mars. The quake described … [+2422 chars]
They're back. After traveling 75,060,792 miles during 177 days in orbit, NASA's Crew-3 mission returned to Earth on May 6 in SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, but the three NASA astronauts and a single Eu… [+3752 chars]
Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help scientists track environmental degradation and play a hu… [+6961 chars]
Kate Tice and Leah Cheshier Four astronauts successfully returned home when the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft landed on Earth last Friday. It marked the end of their six-month-long stay on the Inter… [+2473 chars]
ByNASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 11, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 (Caldwell 62), which has the nickname the Needles Eye. Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Feng (Tsin… [+3809 chars]
EPFL scientists have developed a digital model of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that realistically simulates the movements of the animal. The twin is a big step towards reverse engineering … [+5569 chars]
A long-standing quest for science and technology has been to develop electronics and information processing that operate near the fastest timescales allowed by the laws of nature. A promising way to… [+7264 chars]
ByNASAMay 11, 2022 NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare as seen in the bright flash towards the middle of the Sun on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The image shows a subset … [+2207 chars]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has shared the first images from its recently deployed GOES-18 weather satellite. The stunning captures (below) were obtained by the satell… [+2053 chars]
Researchers who need to look at impossibly small objects or incredibly fast phenomena are in luck. After a series of upgrades that took nine years, the world’s most powerful X-ray laser is back in bu… [+3166 chars]