NASA's spacesuits are getting old. The extra-vehicular mobility unitsEMUs for shortwere designed and built for spacewalks outside NASA's space shuttles, which flew for the last time in 2011. Nowadays… [+4557 chars]
The first image of our Galaxys supermassive black hole, released earlier this month, has already begun to explain some enduring mysteries about the heart of the Milky Way. The wealth of new informat… [+9288 chars]
"And I realized at one point that all the bad guys were Russians." Movie Night Things have been a little more tense than usual on board the International Space Station lately, given the geopolitica… [+1928 chars]
image: In an effort to provide an environmentally friendly and low-waste alternative, researchers at MIT have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab.view more C… [+7109 chars]
NASA is poised to send a tiny satellite to an unexplored trajectory around the Moon that might one day serve as an orbital home to astronauts on a planned lunar space station known as the Gateway. … [+6087 chars]
Most people carry the fungus Candida albicans on their bodies without it causing many problems. However, a systemic infection with this fungus is dangerous and difficult to treat. Few antimicrobials … [+3976 chars]
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid called (7335) 1989 JA will become the closest large asteroid to ... [+] Earth in all of 2022 when it whizzes safely past on May 27. getty The largest asteroid to… [+2071 chars]
A planet’s radiant energy budget is a crucial measure. A new study presents a global picture of Mars’ radiated power based on measurements from different missions. Measurements from NASA’s Mars Globa… [+1886 chars]
For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blood… [+9563 chars]
The US and Japan agreed to work to put the first Japanese astronaut on the moon, accompanied by an American astronaut, as the longtime allies develop a partnership aimed at countering China. The two… [+3920 chars]
A project to develop diffractive solar sails has advanced to the third and final phase of NASAs advanced concepts program. The team behind the project now has two years to further develop this unconv… [+3961 chars]
NASA has provided a few tantalizing details describing its first crewed mission to Mars, which is expected to take place at some point in the 2030s. The U.S. space agency recently announced its top … [+2785 chars]
