THE Sun may surprise us with a solar storm this Friday the 13th. After a week of multiple eruptions on the Sun, space weather experts think we could expect a "glancing blow" from another CME today. … [+2156 chars]
On Thursday, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released the imagery of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*. It is a direct detection of one… [+8125 chars]
Is this thing ever gonna launch? A Curse Upon You Boeings Starliner, it seems, may be cursed. As Reuters reports, Boeing and its supplier, Aerojet Rocketdyne, are playing the blame game as the May… [+1500 chars]
"It was actually a privilege." Hardly Phased Did you really think something as inconsequential as the threat of being destroyed by Russian space junk would phase NASA astronauts during their stay o… [+1539 chars]
Scientists on Thursday provided the first look at the "gentle giant" lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy - an image of a supermassive black hole that devours any matter within its huge grav… [+306 chars]
NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars shows an unusual structure in the rocks that looks like an alien doorway. One of the most recent images captured by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NA… [+1472 chars]
Placeholder while article actions load If it flew, and that was very much a big if, the little helicopter would take to the skies on Mars five times max over a period of 31 days. But over the past … [+9421 chars]
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats above Earth in a gorgeous new photo from the International Space Station. Watkins launched to the orbiting lab on April 27 as part of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission… [+2134 chars]
WASHINGTON The private astronauts who spent two weeks on the International Space Station in April said they tried to pack too much into their schedules while on the station, putting a strain on both … [+4058 chars]
Future quantum computers are expected not only to solve particularly tricky computing tasks, but also to be connected to a network for the secure exchange of data. In principle, quantum gates could b… [+7844 chars]
Asteroid 388945 will pass us from a distance of about 2.5 million miles away. Space scientists have warned that a huge asteroid is heading towards the Earth. According to American space agency NASA … [+1853 chars]
At first glance, a 51-ion system may appear to be easy to use. But even if these charged atoms are only changed back and forth between two states, the result is more than two quadrillion (1015) diffe… [+3278 chars]