Ever since astronomers found that Earth and the Solar System are not unique in the cosmos, humanity has dreamed of the day when we might explore nearby stars and settle extrasolar planets. Unfortunat… [+24497 chars]
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina Many athletes get the "jitters" a feeling of anxiety just prior to competing. For elite athletes, whether they're participating in an individual event or as part of a team, w… [+9207 chars]
Measuring the expansion rate of the universe was one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s main goals when it was launched in 1990. Over the past 30 years, the space observatory has helped scientists disc… [+5214 chars]
We all know that a humongous black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. It's called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) and it has the mass of 4 million suns. We got to see a radio image of it a fe… [+6726 chars]
According to new research from University of British Columbia (UBC) biologists, even the smallest marine invertebrates are home to distinct and diverse microbial communities or microbiomes. The study… [+2984 chars]
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solutions division, a leading supplier of rugged flight test instrumentation solutions engineered to succeed, today congratulated NASA and Boeing on the successful Boeing Orb… [+4590 chars]
"Shooting stars" from the tau Herculids meteor shower may be visible late this month, but you might want to listen for them instead. Excitement among meteor enthusiasts is building as we get closer … [+6742 chars]
The second law of thermodynamics the notion that entropy, a measure of disorder, arguably falls among the principles that have sacrosanct. In the words of the British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington … [+2178 chars]
Our planet's oceans generate tell-tale light signatures when sunlight reflects off them. Exoplanets with significant ocean coverage may do the same. Can we use the Earth's reflectance signatures to i… [+5413 chars]
No object in the solar system experiences the sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of o… [+3010 chars]
Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Ranges Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliners second uncrewed flig… [+2091 chars]
Here's an idea. Someday in the future, NASA sends four people on a mission to Mars. Two of them land on the surface and live in a pressurized rover while conducting science operations for 30 days. Th… [+2108 chars]
