Some ice deposits on the moon are younger than expected, researchers say, and it appears these deposits came from multiple sources at different times in our ...
The space agency unveils two new spacesuits for a planned 2024 return to the moon. They're designed to be more comfortable and easier to move around in ...
Today, NASA unveiled its designs for future spacesuits that astronauts will wear during trips to the lunar surface. The suits are still in development, but NASA ...
NASA has unveiled two new space suit designs for future astronauts on its Artemis program, a mission to send “the first woman and the next man" to the surface ...
NASA will postpone the remainder of an ongoing series of spacewalks at the space station after a related component malfunctioned and needs to be replaced.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is moving up the first all-female spacewalk to this week because of a power system failure at the International Space ...
A Jacksonville native will soon embark on the first all-female spacewalk in NASA history.Later this week, Jacksonville's Christina Hammock Koch and fellow ...
We won't have to wait quite as long as we'd thought for the first all-female spacewalk, if all goes according to plan. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica ...
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will conduct mission on Thursday or Friday; earlier spacewalk was cancelled as Nasa had only one suit in right size.
Piranhas are notorious for their razor-sharp teeth, but a new study of the dangerous fish has surprised researchers, revealing just how remarkable their teeth ...
Piranha fish are incredible animals that have gotten a bit of a bad reputation over the years. Though relatively small, the fish sport jaws lined with incredibly ...
The second interstellar object ever spotted passing through the solar system is a comet that appears quite like those formed in our neighborhood of the cosmos, ...
The second interstellar object ever spotted passing through the solar system is a comet that appears quite like those formed in our neighborhood of the cosmos, ...
Observations of the interstellar Comet Borisov have been flooding in for six weeks, and the more astronomers duplicate one another's work, the more confident ...
October's full moon, called the Hunter's Moon, will rise tonight (Oct. 13), reaching its peak fullness at 5:08 p.m. ET. The Hunter's Moon, which is the full moon ...
The FCC, on SpaceX's behalf, submitted 20 filings to the ITU for 1500 satellites apiece in various low Earth orbits, an ITU official confirmed Oct. 15 to ...
Recently SpaceX received approval to launch 12,000 satellites into space to build a low earth orbit network of satellites, enabling them to sell home Internet.
SpaceX has filed documents with the International Telecommunication Union, which governs international use of global bandwidth, to launch up to 30000 more ...
The SpaceX Starlink constellation may end up almost four times bigger than what the company originally planned. According to SpaceNews, the company has ...
Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser spacecraft is about to enter final assembly, integration and testing after the primary structure was delivered from ...
LOUISVILLE, Colo. — The next big step for mankind is taking shape at Sierra Nevada Corporation's hangar in Louisville. A few days ago, the spacecraft Dream ...
Sierra Nevada Corpo. says it's ready to proceed into final assembly and testing of its first Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft for cargo and eventually crew.
It's crunch time for SpaceX's Crew Dragon, with NASA reportedly reaching “full panic” mode as the agency awaits SpaceX's crewed capsule. After tense public ...
The collaboration between SpaceX and NASA is getting bigger and broader. The latest is a $3 million contract by NASA to expand on the technology concepts of ...
In the end, they were all smiles. On Thursday, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk appeared before the media at ...
The first step was getting to space, and now private corporations are in a race to profit from space. Boeing aims to reclaim its place with an unmanned test flight ...
Extreme snowfall in the Arctic devastated wildlife in Zackenberg, Northeast Greenland, last winter—causing a "complete reproductive failure" across the food ...
In 2018, vast amounts of snow were spread across most of the Arctic region and did not melt fully until late summer, if at all. Publishing on Oct. 15 in the ...
When Jeroen Reneerkens stepped off the plane in Greenland, all he saw was white. The avian ecologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands was ...
In 2018, vast amounts of snow were spread across most of the Arctic region and did not melt fully until late summer, if at all. Publishing on October 15 in the ...
On October 8, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their 1995 discovery of an exoplanet. In the 24 years since the find, ...
On Tuesday, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor Michel Mayor said that humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth's solar system because it would ...
France Media AgencyOct 14, 2019 19: 15: 14 IST. Humans will never migrate to a planet Earth's solar system it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel ...
Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, said it's unrealistic for humans to migrate to a planet outside our solar ...
You can claim to be interested in historical artifacts like pottery, suits of armor, and maybe even a mummy, but the most compelling reason to visit a museum, ...
Even though my primary fascination with the past has always been through archaeology, the science of paleontology has also provided a wonderful source of ...
We can minimize the chances of a catastrophic cascade of collisions if satellite designers and operators follow a few simple rules, according to the Space Safety ...
In a recent essay, Namrata Goswami rightly warns of the peril of deemphasizing the lunar strategy (see “America's incoherent Moon strategy is weakening its ...
Since the dawn of the space era more than six decades ago, there's been just one way to get to the moon and back: rockets. But a pair of graduate students say ...
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Those immortal words belong to history. But in the long story of human evolution, 50 years is only the blink ...
Lunar development has been paced to the hard budgetary constraints placed on NASA, ESA, and other space agencies that are subject to political approval.
Scientists have uncovered a root cause of the growth of needle-like structures—known as dendrites and whiskers—that plague lithium batteries, sometimes ...
AN ASTEROID is “100 percent” sure to strike our planet without warning, a space expert has told Express.co.uk, urging humanity to evacuate the planet before ...
An asteroid passed by Earth last night in what was the object's closest approach in more than a century. The space rock, known as 2019 TA7, safely flew by our ...
An asteroid rapidly moving towards Earth has been detected by NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS.) Based on the size of the approaching ...
A new study out Monday seems to confirm an unpleasant reality: Potentially toxic algae blooms in the world's freshwater lakes have become more intense over ...
Carrying out the first survey of large, freshwater lakes, a group of researchers has proven that the intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past ...
A survey has revealed algal blooms have become more frequent and intense over the last 30 years. Experts looked at 71 lakes and found the least warming are ...
In lakes all over the world, algal blooms are getting more severe. In a new global survey of large, freshwater lakes -- the first of its kind -- scientists found algal ...
The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes, ...
What appears to be a dazzling meteor lit up the sky over northeast China on Friday (Oct. 11), appearing as a brilliant fireball in surveillance video of the event.
Last month, new hope arrived in the form of a study that Venus may have been habitable and was home to "liquid water" for 2 to 3 billion years. Now, that hope ...
Some 850 gigabytes of mouse brain data just got released. That's great for reading the minds of mice now, and for building brain-controlled computers later.
The geode of Pulpí is an 11-meter hollow ovoid with crystal-paneled walls. It is like those familiar couplets of stone interiors covered with bright crystallites, but so ...
One of the best meteor showers of the year will peak early next week and will treat onlookers with nearly two dozen meteors per hour, as long as clouds do not ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Orionid meteor shower, originating from bits and pieces of Halley's Comet, is expected to hit its peak by next week. According to the ...
While much of the world was sleeping soundly and the remainder were going about their daily lives, an asteroid roughly half the size of the Statue of Liberty shot ...
NASA is currently tracking two massive asteroids that are headed for Earth. According to the agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), one of the ...
New research from the University of Chicago and University of North Carolina shows how species of birds form long-term bonds to raise their young more ...
Chemists from have created a new material that self-assembles into 2-D networks in a predictable and reproducible manner. The material has a suite of new ...
Researchers at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research ...
A new experiment conducted by researchers at the Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands shows that it's possible to grow crops on Martian and ...
It's long been established that the Moon contains significant amounts of ice and water, including frozen water found on the lunar surface last year. Now, a new ...
The return of humans to the moon, as well as ongoing robotic missions, may require using resources already on the lunar surface. The moon's south pole is of ...
An important step toward more long-term manned missions to the moon is locating a source of water. A new study has investigated the age and origin of lunar ...
Some ice deposits found on the Moon's south pole may be much more recent than previous estimates that they are all billions of years old, according to a study ...
The human brain is about three times the size of the brains of great apes. This has to do, among other things, with the evolution of novel brain structures that ...
A new study at the University of Zurich now shows that changes in the human brain --three times that of the great apes-- occurred independent of evolution of the ...
Next year is the 200 year anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Ørsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence ...
Secondary metabolites—the compounds produced by microbes to mediate internal and external messaging, self-defense, and chemical warfare—are the basis ...
Each year, heart attacks kill almost 10 million people around the world, and more than 6 million die from stroke. A heart attack is caused by clots that block ...
The new property allows extracting semiconductor characteristics in greater detail, which will give a considerable boost to the development and characterization ...
Despite many eyes in the scientific community focusing on Mars over the past decade, Earth's Moon still provides a huge scientific opportunity for space ...
There is no doubt that one of the hallmarks of the modern space age is the way it is becoming increasingly democratic. In addition to more space agencies ...
SpaceX and Musk have regularly touted their long-term ambition to build a city on Mars by 2050. But solving the issues around a moon base could provide ...
Piranha fish have a powerful bite. Their teeth help them shred through the flesh of their prey or even scrape plants off rocks to supplement their diet.
PNNL scientists Chongmin Wang, Wu Xu and Yang He with the specially modified environmental transmission electron microscope they used to capture images ...
The concept of using an “elevator” to travel from Earth to space has been around for quite some time, with an early concept first proposed in 1959 by Russian ...
A rare lunar phenomenon called a "moon halo" occurred on the coast of Cornwall at the weekend. Time-lapse footage from St. Ives Bay shows clouds crossing ...
On Monday during a conference held in Houston, several veteran astronauts endorsed NASA's plan to return to the Moon. However, they also characterized the ...
When it comes to being willing to explore more efficient options to solving a problem, monkeys exhibit more cognitive flexibility than humans, according to a ...
Two years ago, a barely submerged volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands released giant bubbles of gas, some of which were broader than the world's largest ...
The InSight Mars lander's burrowing heat probe has moved a few centimeters recently, suggesting that a boulder isn't blocking its path — and that the mission ...
The galaxy NGC 4380 looks like a special effect straight out of a science fiction or fantasy film in this Hubble Picture of the Week, swirling like a gaping portal to ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits the Earth, captures images of distant galaxies of all shapes and sizes in the universe. A spiral galaxy ...
When astronomers use the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the deep sky, asteroids from our solar system can leave their marks on the captured ...
The geode of Pulpí is an 11-meter hollow ovoid with crystal-paneled walls. It is like those familiar couplets of stone interiors covered with bright crystallites, but so ...
If you travel to the outskirts of a town called Pulpí in Spain, you'll find an abandoned silver mine. Descend about 50 metres (164 feet) into it, and you'll enter a ...
Using a range of theoretical and simulation approaches, physicists from the University of Bristol have shown that liquids in contact with substrates can exhibit a ...
Curtin University researchers have discovered that a global ice age more than 600 million years ago dramatically altered the face of the planet, leaving a barren, ...
What would happen if Earth's sun suddenly stopped being a sun and transformed into a black hole? According to Jeremy Schnittman, a research astrophysicist ...
Hubble Space Telescope has given us some of the most iconic images of space. It has seen many galaxies, and it has recently snapped an interesting photo of ...
More than 1,900 citizen scientists working with European Space Agency astronomers in the Hubble Asteroid Hunter project have identified more than 300,000 ...
Nanomaterials could provide the basis of many emerging technologies, including extremely tiny, flexible, and transparent electronics. While many nanomaterials ...
At Qesem Cave in Israel, Neanderthals or early Homo sapiens appear to have stored marrow-rich deer bones for several weeks, relying on the bones and their ...
Has the Indian moon lander Vikram been found or not is a question that the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will soon ...
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new scanning transmission electron microscopy method that enables visualization of the ...
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 14, 2019 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new scanning transmission electron microscopy method that ...
Shipment tracking for 'fat parcels' in the body: Researchers at the University of Bonn show that highly sensitive method can 'track' lipid metabolism. Without fat ...
A black hole located within Earth's Milky Way galaxy is voraciously consuming its neighboring star with such ferocity that it is literally flickering with visible light, ...
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing ...
By training a pair of instruments on a nearby black hole, a team of astronomers have now produced a high-frame rate visualization of violent flares at its center in ...
Astronomers have captured high-speed camera views of crackling millisecond flashes of light generated by debris being pulled into a relatively nearby black ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – If you look up into the night sky and see a meteor or two, there are a few different meteor showers that are still lighting up the sky.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – If you look up into the night sky and see a meteor or two, there are a few different meteor showers that are still lighting up the sky.
Christina Koch, one half of NASA's first ever all female space walk scheduled for later this month, is a five-time Space Camp grad at the U.S. Space & Rocket ...
A key component of NASA's Insight Mars lander may soon be back in full swing, with a creative maneuver to free the vehicle's heat probe after it became lodged ...
Most people associate origami with colorful cranes and decorative frogs, but the ancient Asian art of folding paper may be a whole lot more useful than that.
How can a single origami crease pattern be folded into two precisely defined target shapes? Researchers at AMOLF and Leiden University have created an ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON admitted to Larry King in 2017 just how little the US space agency knows about “cosmos phenomena” in the universe, admitting they ...
Scientists have been stunned over the discovery of three black holes on a collision course with one another, in what Science Alert is calling “an unimaginably ...
