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]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain ESA’s Gaia space telescope revolutionizes our understanding of the Milky Way. It scans the sky to measure the position, movement, distance, and characteristics of billions … [+948 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]
Parts of Antarctica have actually gained ice during the last 20 years, new research reveals, despite the continent suffering significant loss due to global warming. Researchers say that sea ice, pus… [+6408 chars]
Titan looks suspiciously like our own planet when you observe it. However, Saturns moon and our own Earth couldnt be any more different. Where landscapes are made of silicate-based sediments on Earth… [+3073 chars]
NASA has created a new video showing 22 X-ray binary systems containing black holes. An X-ray binary system hosts a normal star and a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hol… [+1155 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]
What's in a star? Well, if you're a highly evolved specimen nearing the end of its life named HD 222925, rather a heck of a lot, actually. Scientists have conducted an analysis of this dim object, a… [+4470 chars]
There's been discussion about which human-made objects can be "seen from space." If you have a good enough zoom lens, you can spot even fairly small things, like a SpaceX Crew Dragon on a Falcon 9 ro… [+1444 chars]
With their stretched bodies, immense wingspan and iridescent coloring, dragonflies are a unique sight. But their originality doesnt end with their looks: As one of the oldest insect species on the pl… [+5310 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]
Skywatchers might get a bonus this weekend, when a meteor storm not associated with a major meteor shower could light up the morning. In the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, May 15, our planet will pass t… [+1555 chars]
