NASA's Curiosity Rover has captured images of strange rock pillars on Mars. The size of the pillars is not apparent from the images. Over tens of thousands of years, material sinking to the bottom of… [+1739 chars]
TAMPA, Fla. Egyptian operator NileSats latest communications satellite is ready to move to its final orbit after clearing health checks following its June 8 SpaceX launch, according to the spacecraft… [+1863 chars]
Polar reversals have happened before, and although the average time between them has been 200,000 years, these events occur at irregular intervals. There is a strange and mysterious zone in the South… [+2042 chars]
Micrometeoroid strikes newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment, NASA says of May incident. NASA says micrometeoroid strikes are an "unavoi… [+2222 chars]
NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus will carry a dime-sized, student-built sensor to study the planet's near-surface environment. The DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gasses, Ch… [+3512 chars]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched a satellite into orbit that will be operated by the Egyptian company Nilesat, in its 23rd rocket launch and landing of 2022. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket … [+1047 chars]
ESA's Comet Interceptor mission to visit a pristine comet or other interstellar object just starting its journey into the inner solar system has been "adopted" this week; the study phase is complete … [+5987 chars]
NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on Mars on 26 November 2018. Seventy Martian days later, the seismometercalled SEISdeployed on the surface of Mars began recording the Red Planet's tre… [+7726 chars]
At the current rate of retreat the vast glaciers, which extend deep into the heart of the ice sheet, could contribute as much as 3.4 meters to global sea level rise over the next several centuries. … [+5715 chars]
Pebble accretion is now a favored theory for how gas giant cores are made, and many astronomers argue it may be taking place in those ALMA images, allowing giant planets to form in the first few mill… [+6643 chars]
After Earth, Mars is the planet we all cant get enough of it seems. In terms of how readers respond to news about these celestial orbs, Id rank Jupiter third and Pluto (not even a planet!) fourth, … [+6592 chars]
ByTechnische Universitat DarmstadtJune 9, 2022 Artists rendering showing the simulation of two merging neutron stars (left) and the emerging particle tracks that can be seen in a heavy-ion collision… [+3603 chars]
