A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. A thermonuclear supernova explosion of a white dwarf is supposed to be the terminal event in the life of its progenitor star. These thermonuclear … [+4899 chars]
McGill researchers studied the extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada’s High Arctic to search for life. Why? Because that … [+4067 chars]
The skies overhead could soon be filled with constellations of commercial space stations occupying low earth orbit while human colonists settle the Moon with an eye on Mars, if today's robber barons … [+5422 chars]
Washington: NASA has cancelled its planned 2022 launch attempt of the Psyche asteroid mission -- the agency's first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid. The halt is "due to the late deli… [+2677 chars]
Look to the east-northeastern horizon before dawn on Monday (June 27) to see the moon wrap up its monthly tour of the morning plants with Mercury. "The silver sliver of the old moon's crescent will… [+1952 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped countless of jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring photos of what it sees in space through the years. Nebulae, in particular, have been a frequent subject of the Hubble's… [+2645 chars]
Researchers have found a new way to detect some of the most cataclysmic mergers in the universe before they happen. Neutron stars , the extremely dense cores of massive dead stars, spiraling toward… [+5668 chars]
In 2014, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) dispatched its Hayabusa2 spacecraft to rendezvous with 162173 Ryugu, a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) that periodically passes close to Earth. In 2… [+4661 chars]
It is the first NASA rocket to launch from Australia since 1995. Sydney: NASA's first-ever launch from a commercial site outside of the United States blasted off from Australia's Outback late Sunday… [+2207 chars]
Paleontologists have discovered the oldest belly button known to science on a 125 million-year-old fossil of a dinosaur in the genus Psittacosaurus. Oh, the fossil also had the first dinosaur butthol… [+3449 chars]
NASA's first-ever launch from a commercial site outside of the United States blasted off from Australia's Outback late Sunday, in a "historic" moment for the country's space industry. In the first o… [+2208 chars]
SICHUAN, China — A robotic fish that swims around sucking up microplastics from waters has been created by scientists in China. The tiny machine ‘”wiggles” its body and “flap”‘ its fins just like the… [+2691 chars]
