Recent work on how minerals form may help determine which planets are more likely to be habitable or inhabited. One-third of minerals chemical solids whose atoms are highly ordered are created direct… [+4058 chars]
The Earth just got lucky! By a very small margin though. After 2016 CZ31, which flew past the Earth on July 29, the Earth escaped another asteroid strike today. At 600-feet, an even bigger asteroid w… [+1751 chars]
Now that it has begun science operations, some of the top targets for the James Webb Space Telescope will be exoplanets. The telescope can identify and examine planets outside our solar system, and… [+4685 chars]
When the name Saturn is uttered, what comes to mind? For most people, the answer would probably be, “its fabulous system of rings.” There’s no doubt they are iconic, but what is perhaps lesser-known … [+4939 chars]
BySciTechDailyJuly 30, 2022 The benefits of space station research and development Refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return mission And test firing a solid-rocket booster for our mega… [+6106 chars]
Iapetus is one of the many unique moons of Saturn. Sometimes called the yin and yang of Saturn, Iapetus was discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1671. Cassini had noticed that he could only see one side… [+3097 chars]
Picture shows parts of space junk were found at a sheep farm in Australia. Days before pieces of what is believed to be a Chinese rocket fall on Earth, parts of space junk were found at a sheep farm… [+2010 chars]
Predicting a volcanic eruption could come down to studying the lava inside the mountain. More precisely, the sounds coming from that lava that could indicate when a volcano is ready to blow. What Yo… [+3113 chars]
WASHINGTON Faced within increasing costs, the European Space Agency is looking for ways to revise the design of a large X-ray space telescope, an effort that could have implications for NASAs own ast… [+3533 chars]
This luminescent image features multiple galaxies, perhaps most noticeably LEDA 58109, the lone galaxy in the upper right. LEDA 58109 is flanked by two further galactic objects to its lower lefta gal… [+1671 chars]
There is a massive monster lurking at the beginning of the universe, 10 billion times the mass of our Sun. And one of the James Webb Space Telescopes (JWST) first tasks will be piercing through the… [+4005 chars]
<ul><li>Neutron star wildly spins at 707 times per second.</li><li>It has a mass about 2.35 times greater than that of our sun.</li><li>Neutron star is compact collapsed core of massive star that exp… [+3631 chars]
