Microplastics are a menace. Theyve been found everywhere from the top of Mount Everest to melted Antarctic snow. Microplastics have even been found circulating in human blood. But perhaps the place w… [+1968 chars]
On March 17, 2015, a blood-red arc of light cut through the sky hundreds of miles above New Zealand. Over the next half hour, an amateur skywatcher observed that arc as it transformed before his eyes… [+4092 chars]
A central sunspot has grown dramatically in the past few days. Sunspots can throw off powerful solar flares that disrupt radio communications on Earth and sometimes impact the power grid. Space we… [+2958 chars]
A neutron can be bound either in an atomic nucleus or in a neutron star. The free neutron has a lifetime of just under 15min and decays into a proton, electron and antineutrino. The system made of tw… [+23639 chars]
The Voyager Space Probes — the most distant cameras in the universe — are being powered down after 44 years of interstellar travel. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have made it deeper into space than any ma… [+3183 chars]
NASA announced in May that its InSight Mars landera spacecraft that has spent nearly four years investigating Martian geology and seismic activitywould likely cease scientific operations in mid-summe… [+2776 chars]
English-speaking yoga teachers often evoke space in their pose names, with examples including "crescent moon" and "star" positions. Now an astronaut is getting these moves on during microgravity exe… [+3128 chars]
A great sky event is coming up, and Michiganders have a really good chance at seeing this event. One astronomer is calling it a Grand Conjunction. A conjunction is when two planets come very close t… [+2442 chars]
This stunning photo of a dead California sea lion covered in colorful bat stars recently announced as the winner of a major wildlife photography award. (Image credit: David Slater) (opens in new tab… [+4108 chars]
SpaceX has begun stacking Starship’s first Florida launch tower. Less than half a year after the company restarted work on a Starship launch pad located just a few hundred feet away from existing Fa… [+3303 chars]
ByJet Propulsion LaboratoryJune 22, 2022 NASAs InSight Mars lander uses a seismometer to study the inner layers of Mars. Seismic signals from quakes change as they pass through different kinds of ma… [+5947 chars]
The software on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is to be upgraded after nearly two decades, giving the orbiter capabilities to hunt for water beneath the planet and study its larger moon, Phobos. Mars… [+3673 chars]
