Spacewalking astronauts worked Saturday to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station and give it new life. It was the ...
NASA plans to send a pair of astronauts on a spacewalk, one more time, to finish fixing a complicated science experiment today (Jan. 25). Here's how to watch it ...
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) - An Alabama student is one of nine finalists in a contest to name NASA's next Mars rover. Her essay stood out among ...
HOOKSETT – Last fall, 28000 children across the nation provided essays on possible names for the next Mars Rover. Only 155 moved on from that group into ...
The days until NASA's new rover leaves for Mars are just flying by, but the robot explorer can't leave Earth without a new name! The Mars2020 rover is going ...
A software glitch left NASA's Curiosity rover frozen in place, forcing scientists to come up with a fix so that the robot could resume its exploration of Mars.
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) – A Central York student may have a role in NASA's next mission to Mars. Eamon Reilly, a fourth-grader at Sinking Springs Elementary ...
On January 30, NASA will bid farewell to its Spitzer Space Telescope. The size of a schoolbus, Spitzer is one of NASA's most beloved and hardworking ...
NASA/JPL-CaltechThe Crab Nebula is a remnant of a supernova explosion, captured by the Spitzer Telescope.One of NASA's most powerful space telescopes, ...
On Jan. 30, 2020, the venerable Spitzer Space Telescope mission will officially come to an end as NASA makes way for a next-generation observatory. For more ...
The first batch of cookies in space have been baked in a zero-gravity oven, but the astronaut bakers didn't even get to try them. Instead, three of the five cookies ...
The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking ...
It turns out that, even in space, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies smell incredible. Recently, a batch of chocolate chip cookies — the first food ever baked in ...
The rocket which will return Americans to the Moon is now in place for a key testing phase. Known as “Green Run,” this series of tests will examine many of the ...
A House NASA authorization bill seeks to significantly alter NASA's current plans to return humans to the moon, making them part of an effort to go to Mars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Artemis lunar exploration programme will land the first woman on the moon by 2024, says Joel R ...
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - NASA's tallest rocket stage is on the stand and getting ready for testing. The 212-foot core stage of the Space Launch System ...
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss — The "most powerful rocket in the world," which will return humans to deep space, is ready for testing in south Mississippi.
Scientists say Venus may hold important insights into some of humanity's biggest challenges. As NASA gears up for its Mars 2020 mission, CBS News' Jeff Glor ...
Astronomers have spotted a vampire star feeding on one of its brethren in a dwarf nova. A nova is marked by the sudden appearance of a bight, seemingly new ...
NASA's Kepler space telescope is extremely good at spotting the subtle hints of distant exoplanets. It does this by detecting slight drops in the brightness of stars, ...
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has witnessed the remains of an ancient star thirstily draining material from its giant celestial companion, in a ...
Ryan Ridden-Harper, a postdoctoral fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Australia, who led the research, said the discovery was ...
The US aerospace firm has already been trying to use the same principle to catch the protective nosecones of rockets which are jettisoned after launch.
Elon Musk's private space-faring company SpaceX is now using Tesla Model X's to ferry NASA astronauts to their respective shuttles on the way to the ...
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NASA's Curiosity rover had a little attitude problem earlier this week. The issue sidelined the rover for a brief time, but the golf cart-sized robot is back to roaming ...
People who make their living on the waters off the Oregon coast have long known that ocean acidification is a problem. As carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is ...
Ocean acidification is damaging the shells of young Dungeness crab in the Northwest, an impact that scientists did not expect until much later this century, ...
(CNN) — Allosaurus was a fierce predator at the top of the dinosaur food chain millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex claimed its “king of the dinosaurs” title ...
One of the things that really bugs me about the Jurassic Park movies is the prominent role given to Tyrannosaurus rex—a dinosaur that didn't appear until the ...
There's a new dinosaur at the Utah Museum of Natural History, and its name is Allosaurus jimmadseni. Well, it's not exactly new. According to scientists, the ...
Another first in the Utah paleontology world was announced by scientists with the exciting discovery of a new species of the meat eating dinosaur allosaurus that ...
Scientists say dinosaur fossils unearthed in northeastern Utah in 1990 are the oldest Allosaurus fossils ever found in the state, dating back 155 million years.
Saturn's moon Enceladus has an even better chance of supporting extraterrestrial life than previously thought: researchers have discovered its oceans are more ...
Phantom Express won't get off the ground after all. Boeing has withdrawn from Experimental Spaceplane (XSP), a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
The Phantom Express is no more. Boeing decided to halt the development of the experimental spaceplane it was building as part of the Defense Advanced ...
One of the most luminous stellar explosions ever detected may now be explained. It came from the detonation of a dead star within the dense shell of matter ...
Swedish and Japanese researchers have, after ten years, found an explanation to the peculiar emission lines seen in one of the brightest supernovae ever ...
A strange supernova that's 100 times brighter than it should be has long been a mystery, but it may be explained by the explosion slamming into a cloud of gas.
Chinese opera masks or Jing masks feature unique colors and patterns that give the audience clues about a character's motives, character or virtue. Credit: ...
Four new species of sharks that use their fins to walk have been discovered in waters off of northern Australia and New Guinea, according to a new study.
Walking sharks are one of the newest groups of sharks on the planet, appearing on the animals' evolutionary tree around 44 million years ago, Corrigan and her ...
When asked what's so special about Drosophila melanogaster, or the common fruit fly, Gerry Rubin quickly gets on a roll. Rubin has poked and prodded flies for ...
New Delhi: Google and Virginia-based Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have come up with the largest high-resolution map of ...
Researchers have gotten to the point at which they're able to accurately map the full set of neuron pathways present in one section of the brain of a fruit fly.
Scientists have created the most detailed 3D map of an organism brain to date. The mesmerizing threads of blue, yellow, purple and green represent thousands ...
Archaeologists believe the 'devils trail' of 81 Neanderthal footprints were made hours or days after the Roccamonfina volcano in southern Italy erupted some ...
University of California, Berkeley, scientists have created a blue light-emitting diode (LED) from a trendy new semiconductor material, halide perovskite, ...
UC Berkeley chemists created a type of halide perovskite crystal that emits blue light, something that has been hard to achieve with this trendy new material.
Oxygen is surprisingly the third most abundant element in the cosmos and likely just as important to life elsewhere as here on Earth. New observations of an ...
SpaceX has won its first Falcon 9 launch contract of 2020, adding to an already substantial backlog of missions scheduled to launch over the next several years.
During a fourth spacewalk Saturday to wrap up repairs of the coolant system in a $2 billion cosmic ray detector, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Drew ...
Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, ...
WASHINGTON - Scientists have identified Earth's oldest-known impact crater, and in doing so may have solved a mystery about how our planet emerged from ...
Physicists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), together with colleagues at Saarland University, have successfully demonstrated the transport of an ...
New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China ...
Two photons are entangled, one in polarization and the other in orbital angular momentum — twisted light. By passing the polarization photon through the fiber ...
The Yutu-2 rover snapped this image of its space chaffeur, the Chang'e 4 lander, on the far side of the moon. NASA's Doug Ellison processed the photo and ...
Scientists sampling ice cores from a glacier in China discovered 28 viruses that had been frozen in time for as long as 15,000 years, and were not previously ...
When it comes to building materials, wood doesn't always draw the most attention as the strongest in the bunch. That honor usually goes to concrete and steel ...
NASA's Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star's face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ...
Although NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission ended in 2018, astronomers are still finding surprises in the data provided by the space telescope. One of those ...
A sprawling, stone monument decorated with swirls, circular patterns and godly fangs has been hiding in a remote jungle in northern Peru for around 2000 ...
WASHINGTON — NASA will turn off an aging infrared space telescope in a week, citing the complexities of continuing to operate the spacecraft as it drifts away ...
Update: SpaceX announced on Twitter it is delaying the launch of the Starlink satellites until Monday, January 27, due to unfavorable weather in the recovery ...
SpaceX is planning to launch more than 40,000 tiny Starlink satellites to bring broadband internet *service* to the entire globe. On Friday, the Elon Musk-led ...
SpaceX has again delayed its next Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, citing inclement weather in the area of the Atlantic Ocean hosting the ...
WASHINGTON — The first of four small satellites currently flying with Tethers Unlimited's experimental deorbit module on board began its slow descent last fall ...
Allosaurus was a fierce predator at the top of the dinosaur food chain millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex claimed its "king of the dinosaurs" title and ...
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur, Allosaurus jimmadseni, was unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. The huge carnivore inhabited ...
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in ...
A new species of carnivorous dinosaur, called Allosaurus jimmadseni, has been described in a new paper published in the open-access scientific journal PeerJ.
A savage meat-eating dinosaur the size of a bus that slashed its prey to death has been recognised as a new species 30 years after its remains were dug up in ...
INDIA has introduced the world to the "female" humanoid robot that its space agency intends to send on an unmanned mission. The creepily realistic looking ...
When India's Vikram lander crashed into the moon in September, it was a significant setback for India's lunar exploration plans — but it wasn't really a failure.
Before India's first human spaceflight, a half-humanoid will travel solo to help determine if the trip is safe enough. How ISRO is preparing for the unmanned and ...
Water issuing from an ordinary faucet tells a complex tale of its journey through a pipe. At high velocities, the faucet's gushing stream is turbulent: chaotic, ...
Water issuing from an ordinary faucet tells a complex tale of its journey through a pipe. At high velocities, the faucet's gushing stream is turbulent: chaotic, ...
Scientists have identified Earth's oldest-known impact crater, and in doing so may have solved a mystery about how our planet emerged from one of its most dire ...
China started off 2019 by completing the first soft landing on the far side Earth's moon. It was a monumental achievement, and the months since the mission ...
China has just released a new batch of photos snapped by its Chang'e 4 lunar probe and its Yutu-2 rover. The new images give us the sharpest look ever at the ...
An exploding star that blazed to life 240 million light-years away in the Perseus constellation may have consumed its dead neighbor, new research shows.
SN 2006gy, a superluminous supernova discovered in 2006, gained its exceptional brightness when a normal Type Ia explosion smashed into a dense shell of ...
The record-setting stellar explosion SN 2006gy was 50 billion times brighter than our sun, with a blast so energetic it baffled the scientific community.
Scientists have found the origin of one of the luminous explosions ever seen in the universe. Superluminous supernovae are the brightest explosions in the ...
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge ...
Astronomers have detected large amount of oxygen in the atmosphere of SDSS J081554.26+472947.5 (J0815+4729 for short), an ancient dwarf star located ...
An international team of astronomers has detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars ever ...
Scientists have detected an ancient star with a large amount of oxygen in its atmosphere. During the early days of the universe, there was no oxygen. It was.
Astronomers have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and elementally depleted stars, a finding that sheds more light on ...
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule isn't the only vehicle in the home stretch toward crewed flight; three other private spacecraft may get up and running this year as ...
Welcome to The Downlink, a planetary exploration news roundup from The Planetary Society! Here's everything that crossed our radar this week. Earth SpaceX ...
Scientists have examined a key receptor for the first time at high resolution—broadening understanding of how it might function, and opening the door to future ...
Scientists have examined a key receptor for the first time at high resolution — broadening understanding of how it might function, and opening the door to future ...
Scientists have examined a key receptor for the first time at high resolution -- broadening understanding of how it might function, and opening the door to future ...
Elon Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX, plans to launch up to 42000 satellites into orbit to beam internet down to remote parts of the Earth.SpaceX.
In the most recent issue of the academic journal Science, the case is made for a future where the materials and chemicals that make up the basis of our society ...
According to the World Health Organization, one of the biggest health threats around the world is antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Every day people use antibiotics to ...
"Jumping genes"—bits of DNA that can move from one spot in the genome to another—are well-known for increasing genetic diversity over the long course of ...
A team of researchers from The Ohio State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found a host of ancient virus groups in ice cores taken ...
Artists like to anthropomorphise stars as pretty ladies, but in truth, they can be violent bastards. And astronomers have found a particularly bloodthirsty example ...
This newly-discovered dwarf nova system has a white dwarf star stripping material from a brown dwarf "friend." (Photo Credit: NASA and L. Hustak [STScI]) ...
NASA's VIPER practiced its 'moon shimmy' in a lab that replicates the lunar surface. The rover rolled over a large soil bin allowing scientist to see how it will fare ...
Bias and the prospect of societal harm increasingly plague artificial-intelligence research — but it's not clear who should be on the lookout for these problems.
The presence of carbon dioxide beneath the frozen surface of one of Saturn's moons suggests chemical reactions at its seafloor that could support alien life.
Scientists long have assumed that Enceladus together with Jupiter's moon Europa are the best places to look for life as the two celestial objects have vast ...
