HOUSTON As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agencys chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not a previously announced subset, is eligible for that fli… [+3444 chars]
The sun moves in such a predictable way across the sky that you might never suspect that its relationship with Earth is changing all the time. In fact, the average distance between Earth and the sun … [+7833 chars]
On Mars, there's a unique kind of "tumbleweed" rolling across the Martian plains. These tumbleweeds aren't plants - they are pieces of debris from the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) hardware from… [+3424 chars]
What we would learn from that is kind of a global map of the interior temperature and potentially composition and maybe even water content of the deep parts of the moon, Dr. Garrick-Bethel said. Sci… [+1611 chars]
A little under 13 billion years ago, a large blue star lit up the early cosmos. Across countless light years of expanding space that light has shone, reduced to shadow wherever it met dust and rock.… [+2369 chars]
On Mars, there's a unique kind of "tumbleweed" rolling across the Martian plains. These tumbleweeds aren't plants - they are pieces of debris from the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) hardware from… [+3424 chars]
ByFAPESPAugust 6, 2022 How the pandemic and social isolation have altered how we perceive the passage of time. In the early stages of the epidemic, the majority of those who were confined to their … [+6532 chars]
If it seems the days are getting shorter; they are and have been since the summer solstice in June. But the earth recently recorded its shortest day for an entirely different and unusual reasonthe ea… [+3037 chars]
You may not be a fan of dark matter, the hypothetical particle that makes up the bulk of the mass in the universe. And it's true that the dark matter hypothesis has its shortcomings — and, of course,… [+5300 chars]
ByDelft University of TechnologyAugust 6, 2022 Daran-Lapujades lab took human DNA (in red) encoding core functions in muscle cells and inserted it into the DNA (chromosomes in purple) of a yeast cel… [+5190 chars]
On July 12, the first full-color images from the Webb Space Telescope showed countless nebulae, galaxies, and a gassy exoplanet as they had never been seen before. But Webb only collects infrared and… [+6829 chars]
A Queensland man has revealed how he spotted a glistening $100,000 diamond nestled among a coral reef as he snorkelled off a cruise ship. Bundaberg man Stuart said he was diving 10 years ago when h… [+2125 chars]
