It's almost like a Mars impact crater is staring back up at the European Mars Express orbiter in this recently released image. The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft imaged the 18.6-mile-wide (3… [+1964 chars]
Windows 98 is an alien OS in the year 2022 The Mars Express. Image: European Space Agency Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are getting ready for a Windows 98 upgrade on an orbiter circ… [+2441 chars]
Colloids are mixtures of microscopic particles suspended in fluidssubstances that are part solid, part liquid. Colloids are found in products including toothpaste, ketchup, paint and liquid hand soap… [+4830 chars]
South Korea has for now called off its plan to visit Apophis, an asteroid that is expected to come close to Earth in 2029. The mission was likely canceled on the grounds of the agency's lack of techn… [+2536 chars]
There are a million and one ways to die in space , whether its from micrometeoroid impacts shredding your ship or solar flares frying its electronics , drowning in your own sweat during a spacewa… [+14018 chars]
An international group of astronomers, led by Juan Diego Soler of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), have found the imprint of the bubbles produced by the explosion of dying star… [+4608 chars]
The team overseen by A Southwest Research Institute utilized the Hubble Space Telescope to identify Jupiter’s moon, Europa, at ultraviolet wavelengths, filling in a “gap” in the wavelengths used to o… [+1298 chars]
The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates… [+5096 chars]
In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves… [+5637 chars]
About four and a half years after its last signal, a French nanosatellite miraculously returned to life. He could soon return to service to carry out his mission.He was thought to be lost forever aft… [+3602 chars]
Hermit crabs are found in oceans all over the world, occupying habitats that range from shallow coastal waters to the deepest of seas. They have soft, fragile abdomens that need to be protected from … [+4997 chars]
Scientists are a abuzz with anticipation for the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest and most powerful infrared space-based telescope, which will be revealed in J… [+9313 chars]
