A new map, years in the making, reveals where we can find ancient traces of water on Mars. Using data collected over the past decade by ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, bot… [+4570 chars]
A detailed image of the moon stitched together like a mosaic with hundreds of thousands of photographs is gaining attention on the internet. And no, it wasn't taken by NASA nor the James Webb telesco… [+1744 chars]
In July 2015, NASAs New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto. getty Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the nin… [+4377 chars]
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft departed Earth over 45 years ago on a mission to the outer planets and beyond. Even now, the adventure is still going on. On August 20, 1977, Voyager 2, the first of two s… [+1830 chars]
How big can a star grow? Not as huge as we imagined, it turns out. The sharpest images ever taken of the biggest known star indicate the upper limit to a sun's mass is probably a lot smaller than pr… [+4128 chars]
Wooden objects are usually made by sawing, carving, bending or pressing. That's so old school! Today, scientists will describe how flat wooden shapes extruded by a 3D printer can be programmed to sel… [+4540 chars]
Using lasers smaller than human hair to target microscopic grains of a mineral extracted from beach sand, researchers from Curtin University have discovered an approximately four billion-year-old pie… [+2091 chars]
