In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Media caption, Watch: The atmospheric disturbance in the form of Lamb waves circled the globe (Video looped three times) The eruption of the Ton… [+3991 chars]
A TikTok user who claims to be a time traveler from the year 2269 has warned that a “huge asteroid will come very close to Earth” next year. The user, who posts as @_time_traveller_2269, claims that… [+2017 chars]
In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
Scientists might have just found the "fifth force" working in space. According to them, this force might be mediated by a hypothetical particle called "symmetron" or also known as "domain walls", whi… [+3212 chars]
ByRoger Jones, Lancaster UniversityMay 15, 2022 A recent series of precise measurements of already known, standard particles and processes have threatened to shake up physics. As a physicist workin… [+6733 chars]
Welcome back to our ongoing "Interplanetary Series." In our previous installments, we looked at what it would take to live on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the Main Asteroid Belt, and Jupiter's lar… [+25755 chars]
When NASA sends Artemis astronauts back to the surface of the moon in coming years, they should be able to grow their own salad. That's just one ramification of a historic experiment in which scienti… [+2264 chars]
Before the pandemic levels of anxiety were already pretty high, with one in five of us struggling. But, unsurprisingly, the figures have soared in the past couple of years, to one in three. Copin… [+2376 chars]
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
May 15, 2022 marks the first anniversary of the remarkable touch-down by China's Tianwen-1 on Mars in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of the red planet, … [+2660 chars]
Boeing's Starliner capsule is all set to launch on the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Following a May 11 flight readiness review, NASA and … [+2609 chars]
