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]
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]
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]
Back in 2015, a group of researchers discovered a volcano full of sharks. Dubbed "Sharkcano," the underwater magma crater heated up the water around it and rather than kill off the local marine life,… [+1395 chars]
Creating new chemical compounds, such as new drugs, is not as simple as assembling one of those models with colored balls and sticks you might have seen in a beginning chemistry class. No, it's often… [+4474 chars]
Author of the article: Image of the three satellitesPhoto credit: Space Flight LaboratoryGNW Article content <ul><li>GHGSat equips its existing satellite constellation with three more ABB-built op… [+7740 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]
"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]
Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong. The r… [+5196 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 390 million-year-old, fish-like creature with four limbs is probably not who you'd expect to find in your family tree. But a new study has shown that the creature, called Palaeospondylus gunni, c… [+6877 chars]
