WASHINGTON NASA is gearing up to perform another practice countdown of the Space Launch System in mid-June as it completes repairs to the vehicle from previous tests. NASA said May 20 it expects to… [+2423 chars]
It’s the first direct observation to confirm the existence of a black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, as the beating heart of the Milky Way. Black holes do not emit light, but the image shows the shad… [+7269 chars]
Illumination maps of the lunar South Pole. The shades of gray depict the amount of sunlight received ... [+] during 2024. The floors of many of the craters receive no sunlight at all they're permanen… [+3104 chars]
Asian elephants, like their African cousins, seem to mourn their dead, sometimes even carrying their lost infants in their trunks for days or weeks, new research finds. Whether elephants understa… [+5180 chars]
ByUniversity of CambridgeMay 21, 2022 Animation of the Earths layers. New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed image of an unusual pocket of rock at the bou… [+6885 chars]
When the Solar Orbiter spacecraft made its closest flyby of the sun to date in March this year, it scooped up vast amounts of data from which we can learn about our star. The European Space Agency, w… [+2396 chars]
WASHINGTON NASA is gearing up to perform another practice countdown of the Space Launch System in mid-June as it completes repairs to the vehicle from previous tests. NASA said May 20 it expects to… [+2423 chars]
Over the past week, the internet has been wild over images of what appears as a doorway cut into a cliff on Mars. But scientists behind NASA's Curiosity rover, which snapped the pictures earlier th… [+2525 chars]
For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success. That endeavor is now at an end, though, thanks to new research from the Universit… [+4480 chars]
Some Earthlings will be able to witness a total lunar eclipse on the night of Sunday to Monday, an infrequent celestial spectacle during which the nocturnal star loses its brilliance and gradually tu… [+1916 chars]
After releasing the sharpest image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, scientists at the EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) will now focus on making new observat… [+1613 chars]
Researchers at West Virginia University have been able to identify tiny remnants of prokaryotic and eukaryotic life trapped in 830 million year old halite crystals. Microbial life trapped hundreds o… [+2389 chars]
