Enlarge/ Anna Kikina will be the fifth Russian woman to go to space. 85 with 50 posters participating NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have officially agreed to exchange seats on four … [+3401 chars]
40 with 29 posters participating Slow-motion video of pecking by the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). The original video was recorded at 1600 frames per second. Credit: Robert Shadwick &… [+4305 chars]
A megacomet has just passed safely by Earth, but there's still a chance it will grow brighter through the summer as it reaches its closest approach to the sun in December. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS… [+2824 chars]
Diffraction spikes are so in right now The first full-color image released from the JWST. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Stars in the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope look sharper than… [+4219 chars]
Artists view of Swarm, ESAs first Earth observation constellation of satellites. Credit: ESAP. Carril, 2013 The pressure is rising at ESAs mission control. A European Space Agency (ESA) satellite do… [+5587 chars]
Gaia scientists are agog after finding out that the star-spotting spacecraft can double as a planet-hunter. In a mission first, the long-time star surveyor spotted two Jupiter-size planets in a remo… [+2858 chars]
The planets nearby are ready for their close-up You can see Jupiter, its Great Red Spot, its moon Europa, and Europas shadow next to the Great Red Spot Image: NASA After dazzling the world with th… [+3239 chars]
Groundwater that was recently discovered deep underground in a mine in South Africa is estimated to be 1.2 billion years old. Researchers suspect that the groundwater is some of the oldest on the pl… [+4767 chars]
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and planeta… [+7235 chars]
ByMatt Williams, Universe TodayJuly 15, 2022 Artists impression of how Triton, Neptunes largest moon, might look from high above its surface. The distant Sun appears at the upper left and the blue c… [+16268 chars]
