Science & Exploration24/06/2022174 views6 likes Vital research into health, climate, materials and more continues with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and colleagues aboard the Space Statio… [+4291 chars]
We end our season with our ever-popular, always riveting Quirks & Quarks Listener Question Show. Evelyn Campbell in Vancouver, British Columbia asks: If you were out in space and died, would yo… [+6601 chars]
For the past 10 years, the Curiosity rover has traveled across the Martian terrain, looking for clues to the planets potentially habitable past. Recently, the car-sized robot drove through a transiti… [+2991 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]
Super Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. getty Thirty-three light years. Thats nothing. Sure, its going to be impossible to ever actually visit the two new planets discovered around the sta… [+3127 chars]
This image comes to you from Mount Etna, Sicily, where a lunar analog study focusing on robotic exploration is currently unfolding. The projectnamed the ARCHES Space-Analog Demonstrationis a multi-a… [+2490 chars]
A photographer was out camping when a SpaceX rocket shot across the sky in front of him and he was lucky enough to capture spectacular video footage of it. Justin Anderson was in Manitoba provincial… [+2887 chars]
Some of the most important discoveries in science have come from people asking obvious questions—things so obvious nobody before bothered to ask. Sir Issac Newton wondered why it was that apples and… [+3815 chars]
We end our season with our ever-popular, always riveting Quirks & Quarks Listener Question Show. Evelyn Campbell in Vancouver, British Columbia asks: If you were out in space and died, would yo… [+6601 chars]
NGC 2392 is a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula. About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image… [+1316 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]
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]
