A tiny gold-coated satellite lifted off from Earth on Wednesday with a rather large goal in mind for NASA: beam down data at the fastest rate ever achieved by space lasers. The space agencys TeraBy… [+2890 chars]
The following is an excerpt from Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator by David Shiffman. Get The Book Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World's Most Mis… [+4194 chars]
Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over the planet. But about three billion years ago, they all dried upand no one knows why. … [+5618 chars]
Long-distance ocean travel began with watercraft using zero-emission propulsion systems. Gigantic sails harnessed the power of the wind. As technology developed, oceangoing craft switched to fossil-… [+1969 chars]
The repercussions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appear to be extending into space as well, with a NASA astronaut revealing rising tensions with Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Sta… [+4184 chars]
3D rendering of a spaceship aproaching Jupiter getty No fewer than nine robotic missions have visited the Jovian systemhome to the solar systems largest planet, Jupiterand in less than 80 years hum… [+4217 chars]
Scientists expect the Voyager spacecraft to outlive Earth by at least a trillion years. NASA/JPL-CalTech Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Ur… [+6227 chars]
In a new study published today in the journal Science, the team from Cardiff University has been able to pinpoint exactly how the tilting and wobbling of the Earth as it orbits around the Sun has inf… [+3705 chars]
Venus and the moon will meet up in the sky Thursday (May 26) and you can catch their greetings online. The two worlds will shine in a conjunction and the Virtual Telescope Project plans a broadcast … [+1882 chars]
Theres been a breakthrough in the 50,000-year-old Great Egg Controversy, as scientists have finally cracked the identity of a six-foot bird that laid eggs eaten by Australias first people. The extinc… [+3200 chars]
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun's atmosphere — the corona. Compared to solar flares — bursts of electromagnetic radiation that travel at… [+12947 chars]
NASA has shared one last selfie taken by InSight Mars lander that is about to retire soon as it is losing power due to dusty solar panels. The final selfie was taken on April 24 and shows the lander… [+1966 chars]
