Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute It might be hard to fathom now, but the human exploration of the solar system isn’t going to stop at the moon and Mars. Eventually, our descendants… [+4462 chars]
Scientists from two national laboratories used Argonne's Advanced Photon Source to answer a decades-old question. For computer semiconductors and modern communications devices, finding more efficien… [+5111 chars]
Nasa always has something intriguing to offer to space enthusiasts on social media, be it in form of images, audio or videos. The fascinating posts by the space agency also showcase their data sonifi… [+1147 chars]
Life on our planet is possible because of the Sun, but the relative proximity of our nearest star comes with risks, too. Intense outpourings of radiation and matter from the Sun, for instance, can cr… [+6024 chars]
The Department of Defense is tracking almost 27,000 bits of space debris. Despite their diminutive size, they may interfere with missions.Its difficult to know whats out there when it comes to UFOs a… [+2708 chars]
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained on real astronomical observations now outperform astronomers in sifting through massive amounts of data to find new exploding stars, identify new types… [+9670 chars]
Voyager 1 is the spacecraft launched by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) on September 5, 1977. With these 45 years in space, Voyager 1 has become the most distant spacecraft human… [+3028 chars]
The images were obtained using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on March 30, just four days after Solar Orbiter passed closest to the Sun. SO was inside Mercury’s orbit, about a third of the dis… [+1390 chars]
On the evening of May 30 and possibly into the morning of May 31, witness the birth of a brand new meteor shower called the tau Herculids. What's even better is that it may erupt into a dramatic ou… [+2639 chars]
A group of researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory, along with their co-workers at the Universities of Augsburg (Germany) and Lancaster, has discovered a novel physical effect when two-dimensional … [+4644 chars]
MiniFor the past ten years, NASA's Curiosity rover has been trundling around the surface of Mars, taking photos in its quest to understand the history and geology of the red planet and perhaps even f… [+97 chars]
For centuries, the universe was thought to be a fixed and immobile sphere surrounded by a finite number of stars and other celestial bodies. This notion, which was previously regarded as knowledge, p… [+4304 chars]
