The shell of Jupiter's famous ice moon may be formed, in part, by pure underwater snow that floats up instead of falling down. A new study, published in the August issue of the journal Astrobiology,… [+3158 chars]
NASA didn’t get everything it wanted from the InSight Mars lander, but the mission still pioneered new types of science on the red planet. The mission is now in the rearview mirror, but planetary sci… [+2441 chars]
On Aug. 8, 2021, scientists took a laser the size of three football fields and focused all 192 of its beams of light on a capsule of hydrogen the size of a BB pellet. When 192 laser beams focus on a… [+5019 chars]
ByKatherine Kretke, Southwest Research InstituteAugust 16, 2022 Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids thought to be fossils of planet formation. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center E… [+3968 chars]
In 2019, a conference held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in California concluded with a fraught statement: "We wouldn't call it a tension or a problem but rather a crisis." David Gr… [+6120 chars]
Astronomers have photographed a violent cosmic dance that began between two galaxies a billion years ago, pulling them into a collision that birthed a new chaotic galaxy. At the heart of that giant… [+3731 chars]
Comment on this story A species of dinosaur recently discovered in Argentina had an armored back, distinctive jaw and tiny arms and was roughly the size of a dog. Fossils dated to the humid Late Cr… [+2835 chars]
NASAs most powerful rocket is ready to make its way to the launch pad before its inaugural launch as part of the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon. The space agency is rolling out the enormous Space Laun… [+2292 chars]
Scientists are entering a new era of space science one that will be defined by not simply searching for planets circling distant stars, but by figuring out whether any of them could support life. W… [+4102 chars]
While the idea of sending humans to Mars was once confined to science fiction, NASA hopes it could become a reality by the late 2030s. One of the main obstacles standing in the way is a lack of suff… [+4644 chars]
ByLaura Bandell, The Open UniversityAugust 16, 2022 Japans Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA Asteroids from the outer Solar System may have brought the building blocks of life to Ea… [+5923 chars]
Scientists drilling deep into an iceberg off Greenland have discovered a fish with glowing green antifreeze coursing through its veins. The juvenile variegated snailfish (Liparis gibbus) contained t… [+4187 chars]
