SpaceX has transported the most powerful rocket booster ever assembled to its Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) and used giant robotic arms to install it. It’s not the first such trip for Starship’… [+4548 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]
A spacecraft's second close flyby of Mercury Thursday (June 23) gave a stunning set of close-ups of the planet's craters and volcanic regions. The BepiColombo mission, a joint project by the Europea… [+3046 chars]
Researchers uncovering fossils at the fossil site in 1951 before its location was initially lost. (Image credit: Ferraz et al) (opens in new tab)Scientists have finally rediscovered a lost fossil si… [+4244 chars]
For millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and ev… [+1091 chars]
The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is a busy place. The region is known for active star formation and other phenomena. It’s o… [+7487 chars]
A team led by researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, with collaborators from the University of Pretoria (South Africa), as well as Mexico and Scotland, have… [+5419 chars]
SpaceX has transported the most powerful rocket booster ever assembled to its Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) and used giant robotic arms to install it. It’s not the first such trip for Starship’… [+4548 chars]
The latest news out of our solar system invokes memories of a game of Hungry Hippos. A new paper published this month in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics says that the planet Jupiter might h… [+2409 chars]
Nearly two years since the Mars 2020 mission first launched, the robot astrobiologist known as Perseverance has given us a novel and sometimes surprising look at the Red Planet. Outfitted with a wea… [+9922 chars]
Southwest Research Institute scientists assembled data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory tests and exospheric modeling to disclose the likely configuration of the red cap on Plut… [+1575 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]
