While the idea of living on Mars may sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster, firms including NASA and SpaceX are seriously considering it as a possibility. Several challenges… [+13452 chars]
NASA is planning a mission to demonstrate the ability to repair and upgrade satellites in Earth's orbit. The mission, called OSAM-1 (On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing-1), will send a… [+9428 chars]
In very simple terms, low Earth orbit (LEO) is exactly what it sounds like: An orbit around the Earth with an altitude that lies towards the lower end of the range of possible orbits. This is around … [+4674 chars]
After four years of digging for fossils in a churchyard in York, Pennsylvania, amateur paleontologist Chris Haefner made an intriguing find. I knew it was worth keeping, he said. He posted his disc… [+6089 chars]
Picture of the water-capturing film. Credit: University of Texas at Austin. Nearly one in three people lack access to safe drinking water, according to the WHO, and that number is only likely to gr… [+3206 chars]
A rare meteor shower might peak like a storm if Earth passes through the debris trails of a broken comet on the night of May 30 to the early morning of May 31, according to NASA. The meteor shower t… [+2517 chars]
BySciTechDailyMay 30, 2022 Artists concept of a sun-like star (left) and a rocky planet about 60% larger than Earth in orbit in the stars habitable zone. Gravitational microlensing has the ability t… [+12969 chars]
ByESA/HubbleMay 30, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7496, which lies over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. L… [+2279 chars]
The biosynthetic pathways for the manufacture of the natural product cyanobacterin, which is generated in modest quantities by the cyanobacteria Scytonema hofmanni, have been discovered. They also f… [+3672 chars]
Illustration of Gateway in lunar orbit with contributions from international partners. Credit: NASA Edinburgh, 30 May 2022. – U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida annou… [+1164 chars]
Antarctica has long been a land of mystery and heroic feats made famous by the explorations of James Ross, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton. A key piece of the puzzle for understand… [+8392 chars]
image: Left: 3D visualization from the magnetotelluric scan of Erebus interior (red is most conductive and magma rich); Right: schematic depiction of magmatic processes. Upward flow from a deep crust… [+8607 chars]
