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]
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Mice use a specific neural pathway to detect shadows, and it can detect just about the dimmest shadows possible, according to new research from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The hu… [+4041 chars]
Are shards of planet Mercury hiding on Earth? Scientists think that Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun was once a much larger cosmic body, until it collided with another space object and got ripp… [+3229 chars]
ByNASAMay 25, 2022 Diffractive solar sails, depicted in this conceptual illustration, could enable missions to hard-to-reach places, like orbits over the Suns poles. Credit: MacKenzi Martin As NASA… [+5274 chars]
The ISS is a research platform born from a foreign policy initiative to improve US-Russian relations Most people are used to not answering calls from unknown numbers but user EmpatheticApatheist on … [+1785 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]
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"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]
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]
SpaceX will launch a batch of small satellites to orbit and land the returning rocket today (May 25), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from C… [+2017 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]
