What's in a head? According to new research, a little bit of our ancestors' tails. In the early days of complex, multicellular life on Earth, animals started out without any spines or brains. They o… [+2661 chars]
Nothing that we know of in nature gets as cold as the atomic gases inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab, currently orbiting on the @Space_Station. Here's what we're learning at one one-millionth of a degree … [+607 chars]
ByNASAMay 19, 2022 An afternoon on Mars: NASAs Perseverance Mars rover used its Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to acquire this image after driving on sol 428. The view is behind the rover towards … [+3011 chars]
A trio of moderate flares blasted off from the sun on Thursday (May 19), and there might be more in store. The solar flares come amid a noticeable uptick in solar activity in recent months. SpaceWea… [+2163 chars]
People have been asked to lookout for a meteorite that landed in south Wales last week. The UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll) said that a fireball lit up the night sky and may have landed somewhere in B… [+2843 chars]
In the three and a half years that NASAs InSight has been on Mars, the lander has delivered incredible observations that have literally changed the way we understand the interior of the Red Planet. I… [+2715 chars]
WASHINGTON, May 20 American aerospace giant Boeings Starliner capsule was heading for the International Space Station Thursday, in a critical uncrewed test flight that followed years of failures and … [+3459 chars]
As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations of the observatory. While the telescop… [+5312 chars]
After more than five years of data modeling, analysis, and even hauling hard drives around the world, astronomers have finally released the first-ever snapshot of the black hole at the center of ou… [+4097 chars]
In recent years, crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members of the public to help collect data, has been tremendously helpful to provide researchers with unique and rich datasets, while also en… [+4633 chars]
Beijing: Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the solar system, about 32 light-years fro… [+1484 chars]
Nature is made up of some amazing and intriguing creatures. Perhaps one of the most intriguing is the octopus. Some even believe they could be aliens. One mystery that has long evaded scientists is t… [+3013 chars]
