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]
A toaster-sized probe will soon scope out a special orbit around the moon, the path planned for NASAs Lunar Gateway space station. The Gateway, to be rolled out later this decade, will be a staging p… [+3512 chars]
With a massive planet come massive storms. Such storms on Jupiter are the focus of a new citizen science project hosted on Zooniverse. Jovian Vortex Hunter (opens in new tab) launched Tuesday (June … [+2213 chars]
NASA’s Psyche mission, named after its destination, attempts to discover whether the 140-mile-wide metal-rich asteroid is the unprotected core of a protoplanet, as scientists think it might be. Prese… [+1248 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]
The supergiant Betelgeuse. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin. The giant star Betelgeuse has long fascinated the inhabitants of our planet. The ancients saw fire an… [+145 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]
16 Psyche the large metallic asteroid. NASA imagery was used for this composite from ... [+] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/16-psyche/in-depth/ getty NASAs much… [+3394 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]
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]
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… [+14075 chars]
