NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this artists concept traveling through space against a field of stars, has been exploring our solar system since 1977, along with its twin, Voyager 2. Credit: NAS… [+2730 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]
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]
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]
What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturns moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was l… [+5288 chars]
NASA is sending astronauts back to the Moon by the end of this decade, and hope to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. Growing food in space using in-situ resources is vital if astronauts are … [+5980 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]
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]
It might be time for NASA to ditch its aging ISS spacesuits. The space agency announced a pause to all its spacewalks until it has a better handle on a lingering and frightening issue thats causing w… [+3888 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]
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]
Obtaining structurally uniform nanocarbons in order to properly relate structure and function, ideally as single molecules, is a great challenge in the field of nanocarbon science. Thus, the construc… [+3808 chars]