Earth's magnetic field may not be heading toward a dramatic flip anytime soon, according to scientists who analyzed anomalies in the planet's invisible shield against solar wind and other radiation. … [+1823 chars]
On November 15th, 2020, NASA and SpaceX made history when a crewed spacecraftthe Crew Dragon Resiliencelifted off from American soil and delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station (… [+6380 chars]
On November 15th, 2020, NASA and SpaceX made history when a crewed spacecraftthe Crew Dragon Resiliencelifted off from American soil and delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station (… [+6379 chars]
June's full moon – popularly nicknamed the Strawberry Moon – will ripen in Earth's skies on Tuesday (June 14). The moon will reach its peak around 8:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, but will also appear brigh… [+2013 chars]
A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become f… [+2019 chars]
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]
Fossilised bones discovered on a rocky seashore on Englands Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin of t… [+3477 chars]
Whether you’re a regular gym-goer with muscle-building constantly on the mind, or a fitness-tracker buff with eyes set firmly on that daily 10,000, you’ll surely have thought, does walking build musc… [+6365 chars]
NASA astronaut Ed White is the first U.S. citizen to perform a spacewalk, which he did on June 3, 1965, only three months after Leonovs daring jaunt. The EVA, conducted during the Gemini 4 mission, s… [+1298 chars]
Astronomers have captured the largest near-infrared image of the sky using Hubble. An innovative drift and shift approach was used to capture eight pictures per Hubble orbit instead of the standard o… [+1547 chars]
In almost every human cell, two metres-long DNA has to fit within a nucleus that is just 8 millionths of a metre wide. Like wool around a spool, the extreme space challenge requires DNA to wrap aroun… [+4278 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]
