Figuring out how to feed people in space is a major part of a larger effort to demonstrate the viability of long-term human habitation of extraterrestrial environments. On May 12, 2022, a team of sci… [+7206 chars]
Water ice deposits exist at the lunar poles, where temperatures are low enough for these deposits to remain stable over long timescales. However, water ice’s origin, abundance, and distribution remai… [+3309 chars]
Scientists are now scouring YouTube videos to crowdsource the interactions of Asian elephants and their response to death. Elephants are emotionally intelligent animals known to display grief at the … [+2200 chars]
The ALICE experiment of the Large Hadron Collider has, for the first time, directly measured a phenomenon known as the "deadcone," which has allowed physicists to directly measure the mass of a funda… [+3905 chars]
When it comes to UFOs and extraterrestrial life, it's not clear all that's out there. But we do know a good bit about one thing in space: trash. From the moment humankind began space exploration, w… [+3364 chars]
THE largest asteroid to get up close and personal with Earth this year will make its knee-wobbling flyby this week. The space rock, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soar within 2.5million miles (4m km) of… [+2492 chars]
WASHINGTON As Boeings CST-100 Starliner prepares to return from its brief trip to the International Space Station, NASA officials say theyll wait until this summer to determine the schedule for the v… [+4550 chars]
An autonomous spacecraft exploring the far-flung regions of the universe descends through the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet. The vehicle, and the researchers who programmed it, don't know much abo… [+5747 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMay 23, 2022 A new searchable database reveals more than 90,000 known materials with electronic properties that remain unperturbed in the face of… [+7376 chars]
A new computer simulation reveals that dwarf planet Ceres was hurled toward the sun by the gravity of gas giant Jupiter during the explosive 4.5 billion year period of planet formation. Ceres has al… [+3593 chars]
WASHINGTON , May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo Monday where they announced progress on collaboration for human and robotic luna… [+3123 chars]
Earth has been presented with an opportunity to witness one of the most beautiful occurrences in the night sky in just a weeks time. According to NASA, some of us will get to witness one of the brigh… [+2469 chars]
