These six countries are about to go to the Moon heres why, read by Benjamin Thompson. Your browser does not support the audio element. In the next year, no fewer than seven missions are heading to … [+711 chars]
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as ... [+] the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 2… [+5381 chars]
Why send teens into space? They are the ideal astronaut candidates: They are less likely to grasp the inherent risks involved in space travel, so might be less terrified to know they are about to be … [+5566 chars]
Illustration of Psyche Spacecraft with Five-Panel Array NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin NASA's Psyche asteroid mission -- the agency's first mission designed to… [+2639 chars]
Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a camera system that can recognize the colors of the infrared spectrum that doesn’t require the converting to the visible spectrum after the f… [+2800 chars]
There are just eight planets in our Solar System (sorry Pluto), so the neighborhood can feel pretty empty. But there are over 200 moons orbiting objects in the solar system, including planets and lar… [+495 chars]
The best candidate for a binary crater on Earth today is the Lockne crater in Sweden and a smaller crater nearby called Målingen. We dated these structures very exactly and saw that they formed at ex… [+2939 chars]
When the COVID pandemic broke out and Italy experienced a strict lockdown, news stories started reporting anecdotal evidence about women forced to live under the same roof with abusive partners. Howe… [+4192 chars]
A newly discovered supercluster of galaxies is so distant that astronomers say its light has been traveling for over 12 billion years to reach telescopes on Earth. But this cluster, named SPT2349 ?… [+3291 chars]
Using data from ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's NuSTAR space observatory, Indian astronomers have performed a broadband X-ray analysis of a unique intermediate polar known as Paloma. Results of… [+3434 chars]
ByUniversity of Texas at AustinJune 27, 2022 Origin of Life artists concept. The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been… [+4981 chars]
Three-dimensional models of astronomical objects can be ridiculously complex. They can range from black holes that light doesn't even escape to the literal size of the universe and everything in betw… [+3664 chars]