The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behindknown as a white dwarfis sucking in debris from both the system's inner and outer … [+5667 chars]
Asteroid Bennu's boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Ide… [+3353 chars]
China's Chang'e 5 lunar landing and sampling mission found water on the moon both through on-site analysis and in materials delivered to Earth. The daring Chang'e 5 mission touched down on the moo… [+2528 chars]
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will fly NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is at the pad for a critical series of tests this weekend. NASA officials held a call with reporters on Wednesday (Ju… [+5106 chars]
A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases as th… [+4083 chars]
When you think about precious crown jewels, a 400-year-old gallstone is probably not what springs to mind! However, a team of scientists have found something very valuable inside calcified balls ext… [+6493 chars]
ByUniversity of AmsterdamJune 16, 2022 University of Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever. Credit: UvA These days, imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficu… [+7083 chars]
The next time you look up at a bright full moon, think about this: No one knows, precisely, where the moon came from. We have no idea why the moon is here, science writer Rebecca Boyle says on Unex… [+9119 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 16, 2022 MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it … [+8044 chars]
PASADENA, Calif. NASA has assigned two veteran astronauts to the first crewed flight of Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in the latest reshuffling of personnel assigned to the long-delayed missio… [+3169 chars]
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will fly NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is at the pad for a critical series of tests this weekend. NASA officials held a call with reporters on Wednesday (Ju… [+5106 chars]
University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation. The new stellar systems contain only young, … [+5582 chars]
