Enlarge/ Alpine chipmunks collected by pioneering naturalist Joseph Grinnell in the early 20th century are still preserved at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkele… [+10711 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar spa… [+5606 chars]
NASA first shared what Mars sounds like last year, using microphones placed on the Perseverance rover. Since then, though, scientists have been studying the recordings, and have even created a playli… [+2834 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar spa… [+5606 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has been spending the past few decades being our favorite space photographer. Through the years, it has captured awe-inspiring photos of nebulae and galaxies. Aside from th… [+2769 chars]
We very well know that in the solar system, planets orbits the Sun. But do you know that along with planets, there are objects made up of dust and ice called comets, that also orbit the sun. They are… [+2432 chars]
Recent evidence suggests that Europas icy shell may have pockets of liquid water: Because its closer to the surface, where you get interesting chemicals from space, other moons, and the volcanoes of… [+4313 chars]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has captured the world’s affection with its explorations of Mars which have been far more successful than even the most optimistic predictions. But after 28 flights, the h… [+3001 chars]
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to capture a mind-blowing image of the Helix Nebula. The Helix Nebula can be seen in this infrared image captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The nebul… [+3684 chars]
Photo by Rick Rothenberg on Unsplash If our theory holds, with the velocity of a particle traveling at 211985280 m/s, in a centrifuge with a radius of 423970560 meters, we should be able to fuse two… [+237 chars]
Photo by Terry Vlisidis on Unsplash Hydrogen has three isotopes Hydrogen-1 (or normal hydrogen), Hydrogen-2 (Deuterium), and Hydrogen-3 (Tritium). While regular hydrogen is a single electron orbiti… [+98 chars]
A navigation system glitch that struck NASA's MAVEN orbiter at Mars earlier this year has hobbled the spacecraft's ability to conduct science and study the Red Planet's atmosphere. The MAVEN spacecr… [+3029 chars]