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]
"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]
A few weeks ago, news began to circulate of a possible meteor storm happening at the end of May the first in two decades. Now researchers report on the possibility of another possible one, and it is … [+2297 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]
ByUniversity of FloridaMay 13, 2022 Stock photo illustrating a plant growing on the moon. Scientists have grown plants in soil from the Moon, a first in human history and a watershed moment in luna… [+8442 chars]
One of the biggest challenges to our traditional understanding of the cosmos is something called the "satellite disk problem." In essence, scientists are confused because smaller galaxies orbit large… [+2037 chars]
Three years ago, scientists used a telescope the size of Earth to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, they've done it again — this time, closer to home, and of a very different invisib… [+5454 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]
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]
Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in smal… [+4623 chars]
Theres green energy and then theres truly GREEN energy, or rather, blue-green energy. A colorful colony of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, have successfully powered a compute… [+3741 chars]
WASHINGTON —The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, includi… [+1244 chars]
