Long the dream of many science fiction fans, if Elon Musk and SpaceX get their way, members of our species will indeed live on Mars within the next few decades. But, unlike in science fiction films a… [+16304 chars]
A blast of new meteors may emerge during a tau Herculid meteor shower on May 30 and 31, but that's not a sure thing. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke termed the potential milestone an "all or nothing even… [+3819 chars]
Large amounts of dust that help give the Red Planet Mars its butterscotch-pink sky is being blown into the atmosphere by whirling dust devils and occasional but powerful gusts of wind, NASA's Perseve… [+5168 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]
The T-Rex has always been portrayed as a cold-blooded killer. But now scientists have found the worlds most infamous predator was actually warm to hot-blooded, and it would have made the species far… [+2430 chars]
While data is still being received from the Voyager 1 probe, one of its control systems is sending back confusing data to NASA engineers. Nearly 45 years into its space journey, the NASA Voyager 1 p… [+2397 chars]
Title:Analysis of a JWST NIRSpec Lab Time Series: Characterizing Systematics, Recovering Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy, and Constraining a Noise Floor Authors: Zafar Rustamkulov, David Sing, Rongro… [+5334 chars]
Credit: Airbus Edinburgh / Friedrichshafen, 25 May 2022. – ESA has confirmed after a thorough review process that the preliminary design of the Airbus-built Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography … [+1056 chars]
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]
Earth's interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through the hot magmatic fl… [+3598 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the elliptical galaxy NGC 474, which is located approximately 100 million light-years from Earth and is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way. (Image credit: NASA, ESA… [+2092 chars]
ASTRONOMERS on Friday will live stream the close flyby of the largest asteroid to zip past Earth this year. The space rock, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soar within 2.5million miles (4m km) of our pal… [+2889 chars]