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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Archaeologists have found that a tool, dubbed the "stone Swiss Army knife" of prehistory, was made to look the same in enormous numbers across great distances and multiple biomes in southern Africa. … [+4766 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]
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]
A Quantum Science Center-supported team has captured the first-ever appearance of a previously undetectable quantum excitation known as the axial Higgs mode. This mode manifests as a low-energy exci… [+5482 chars]
In your home, storing books on a bookshelf, tools in a tool box, and a broom in a broom cupboard makes it easy to access these items whenever you need them. Within the body, hematopoietic stem cells … [+3104 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 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]
