The Solar Orbiter missions first close pass of the sun in March has revealed our star in a new light. The spacecraft, which flew by the Sun on March 26, has returned a treasure trove of new images a… [+5951 chars]
We're probably still decades away from putting humans on the surface of Mars, but on Tuesday NASA released a draft of a new high-level workshop that outlines how a 30-day mission on the Red Planet mi… [+3091 chars]
Robots have traditionally been purpose-built to perform a single, very specific task, but researchers from Beihang University are taking a much different approach with a new robotic drone that can op… [+6719 chars]
Produced inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab, ultracold bubbles provide new opportunities to experiment with an exotic state of matter. Since the days of NASA's Apollo program, astronauts have documented (a… [+5655 chars]
In 1996, a rock from space was found in southwestern Egypts Great Sand Sea. The rock was odd, even by extraterrestrial standards, and a team of researchers studying the rocks chemistry now propose th… [+2894 chars]
A team of engineers successfully generated electricity from a technology commonly found in night-vision goggles — called "nighttime" solar power, according to a recent study published in the journal … [+3323 chars]
Chinese researchers have detected hydrated minerals on Mars by analyzing data collected by the country's Zhurong rover that is currently trekking the surface of the Red Planet. The detection by the s… [+144 chars]
The sophisticated French-UK seismometer package is just weeks away from being shut off The seismometer on Nasa's InSight probe will keep listening for Marsquakes even as other systems on the mission… [+4822 chars]
<ul><li>Scientists have for the first time been able to grow plants in soil from the moon.</li><li>The soil samples were collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 ventures, according to NPR.</li><li>… [+3976 chars]
Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed.In a new study, the physicists studied discrete aurora, a light-in-the-sky display that occurs mostly duri… [+2221 chars]
Salt crystals from Central Australia hold ancient microorganisms that became trapped 830 million years ago, new research finds. And there's a chance that some of the microorganisms might still be a… [+4547 chars]
Ants may be the unlikely heroes when it comes to better understanding the health of our planet in the midst of a climate crisis. In a paper published to Frontiers in Remote Sensing, a team of scienti… [+3863 chars]
