A crew of private astronauts will pay around $55 million each to spend about eight days at the International Space Station next January in what would be a new ...
MIAMI TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - For decades, NASA has been the driving force in American space exploration -- from Gemini and Apollo to the Space Shuttle ...
The first full moon this year is the Wolf Moon, and howling at it is said to be an expression of readiness to reintegrate with the pack after a period...
In 22 days, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will land on Mars in Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient life that may have been on the red planet in ...
The rocks seen here along the shoreline of Lake Salda in Turkey were formed over time by microbes that trap minerals and sediments in the water. NASA's Mars ...
NASA has released a dramatic, nearly cinematic 'mission trailer' envisioning what it will look like when its Perseverance rover arrives at Mars next month. The.
In modern times, a great deal of research has focused on the way that artificial light sources mess up our sleep and health, due to the unnatural effects of ...
With the year's first full moon appearing on Thursday, it's helpful to know that people tend to go to bed later and sleep less in the days leading up to a full moon, ...
Before the availability of artificial light, moonlight was the only source of light sufficient to stimulate nighttime activity; still, evidence for the modulation of sleep ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon bid asteroid Bennu farewell. NASA has announced that OSIRIS-REx will start its journey back to our planet on May 10th, ...
Scientists inferred Bennu's sojourn in the inner Solar System at 1.75 million years. Last year NASA snagged a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu, ...
Since its launch in September 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has traveled billions of miles, mapped the surface of an asteroid in unprecedented detail, and ...
Rate of loss rose from 0.8 trillion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 1.3 trillion tonnes per year by 2017, with potentially disastrous consequences. Using satellite ...
On Earth, the amount of ice lost each year is equal to a monstrous, over six-mile-high ice cube looming over New York City. And this ice loss is accelerating.
New research suggests Earth's ice is melting faster today than in the 1990s. An estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world's sea ice, ...
The frozen kingdom of Antarctica may appear featureless from above, but beneath all that ice lies a mysterious and complex world that researchers say could be ...
Earth's ice is melting 57 percent faster than in the 1990s and the world has lost more than 28 trillion tons of ice since 1994, research published in The ...
People go to bed later and sleep fewer hours the night before a full moon, and menstrual cycles seem to temporarily synchronize with moon cycles, scientists ...
The blog "Ladyplanet. Natürlich Frau sein" is quite certain: "Our cycle is linked to that of the moon. The most obvious connection is the length of the two cycles," it ...
Would it be surprising to find a rocky planet that dates back to the very early Universe? It should be. The early Universe lacked the heavier elements necessary ...
Americans may look back at the moment they saw a Moon rock sitting in Biden's Oval Office as the day the White House was exorcised of its ignorance, ...
Objects that are being protected by the act include artifacts like vehicles, equipment, remnants of the experiment, traces of human and robotic presence from the ...
The Biden Administration has yet to articulate a space policy. Hopefully they will embrace the current holistic, Moon to Mars, vision advanced by the National ...
Former NASA Administrator and Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine has landed a new job in the private sector less than a week after stepping down with ...
Jim Bridenstine, the former congressman from Tulsa who led NASA while the agency developed its latest mission to return humans to the moon and expanded ...
WASHINGTON — Less than a week after leaving the agency, former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is joining a private equity firm that invests in the ...
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has transitioned to his new job in the private sector: senior adviser for the private equity firm Acorn Growth Cos.
HAYWOOD COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — More than 2,500 people are signed up to hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail this season. But the organization ...
There has emerged a great suckling sound rising over hill and dale. Something between the whiffling gaseous pop preceding your boot being slurped off by two ...
Appalachian Trail Conservancy recommends long-distance hikers halt trips until 2022, the pandemic is controlled or when there's enough treatment and ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hikers are being told by the agency that oversees the Appalachian Trail to postpone plans to cover the nearly 2200-mile (3540 ...
The International Space Station's current Expedition 64 crew has recently shared a few gorgeous photos of Earth's auroras. The stunning natural colors are ...
Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light followed by a loud crackling and then a low, rolling thunder – who doesn't love a ...
Using the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory on the International Space Station (ISS), researchers have observed five intense blue ...
Newly published observations from space are showing researchers more about the nature of Earth's lightning storms, including whimsically named phenomena ...
Fast-forwarding quantum calculations skips past the time limits imposed by decoherence, which plagues today's machines. A new algorithm that fast forwards ...
We may not know what dark matter is, but scientists now have a better idea of what to look for. Based on quantum gravity, physicists have worked out new, much ...
Early planetary migration in the solar system has been long established, and there are myriad theories that have been put forward to explain where the planets ...
Scientists have long been baffled by the mismatch of climate simulations of the past 12,000 years with temperature reconstructions from geological records.
Researchers from Rutgers University collected bottom sediments near the mouth of the Sepik River off northern Papua New Guinea to create a new temperature ...
Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact that they are actually among the ...
DENVER — For the first time in nearly 100 years, a dinosaur skull belonging to the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was discovered with help from a ...
DINOSAUR experts have unearthed the first new skull of a rare tube-crested species in almost a century, detailing the evolution of the dino's bizarre crest.
The duck-billed dinosaur Parasaurolophus is best known for the tube that grows out of its head, and the well-preserved skull offers more clues about the crest's ...
With the cold weather these days, one pandemic trend is continuing to warm people's homes: sourdough baking. The process of making a loaf with live ...
A study of 500 sourdough starters from four continents offers new insights into the environmental factors that contribute to each sourdough starter's microbial ...
In a study of 500 sourdough starters spanning four continents, scientists have garnered new insights into the environmental factors that contribute to each ...
A team of researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital recently published a study linking social awareness to individual neuronal activity. To the ...
The Crew Dragon is up and running, having already taken several astronauts up to the International Space Station (ISS). Starliner would have done the same if it ...
Where did the ingredients for life on Earth come from? A team of astronomers has found a crucial new link: the observation of essential "prebiotic" molecules ...
Researchers have discovered a common martian mineral deep within an ice core from Antarctica. The find suggests the mineral—a brittle, yellow-brown ...
In the next years, increasing use of electronic devices in consumables and new technologies for the internet of things will increase the amount of electronic scrap ...
Physicists have discovered a potentially game-changing feature of quantum bit behavior which would allow scientists to simulate complex quantum systems ...
Jan. 26, 2021 -- Physicists have discovered a potentially game-changing feature of quantum bit behavior which would allow scientists to simulate complex.
Well, here's something you don't see every day. On November 18, 2020, the Solar Orbiter managed to capture three of our solar system's eight planets in a ...
Astronomers have found the first Jupiter-like exoplanet with no clouds or haze. It's an ideal object for further study with the James Webb Space Telescope.
While NASA warns of another five space rocks headed towards the Earth, one Finnish astrophysicist is proposing human colonization of the asteroid belt itself ...
AN ASTEROID longer than four double-decker busses is set to swing by our planet, NASA has revealed, and the space agency has shown that the monster rock ...
NASA's Deep Space Network, commonly referred to as the DSN, has welcomed a new dish, Deep Space Station 56, to its family of powerful ground listening ...
Press Release: Red Bull In just three minutes and during a total solar eclipse, Pedro Burns descended from Villarrica Volcano at full speed to perform a backflip ...
