Following a successful demonstration mission of its Crew Dragon spacecraft in March, SpaceX has been preparing that vehicle for a critical launch abort test this ...
New York (CNN Business) Thick plumes of smoke rose over a SpaceX facility in Florida during a test fire of a Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday. If the issue ...
Officials say SpaceXs new capsule for astronauts suffered an anomaly during a routine engine test firing in Florida, causing smoke to be seen for miles.
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Astronomers tend to be patient people. When it comes to stars, much of what they examine happened millions of years ago, and when it comes to space probes, ...
There's a whole lot of shakin' going on in Southern California — 10 times more than seismologists had thought. But most of those earthquakes are so tiny that no ...
Southern California gets a lot more action than we thought. In a new study, researchers from the California Institute of Technology and University of California, ...
By reanalyzing seismic records, researchers found a plethora of tiny earthquakes in Southern California that trace new fault structures and reveal how ...
The outline of an airplane is seen as it makes its way past the full moon (referred to as the "Blood Moon) pictured from Ocean Breeze. Monday April 14, 2014.
An Antares rocket built by Northrop Grumman launched on Wednesday afternoon, boosting a Cygnus spacecraft with 3.4 tons of cargo toward the International ...
The Cygnus spacecraft, christened the S.S. Roger Chaffee, is in the firm grasp of the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm Friday after arrival. Credit: David ...
Despite humanity's compulsion to probe ever-deeper into outer space, progress remains slow. After all, to even send an individual into orbit requires millions of ...
NASA has a new social media campaign to gear up its audience for Earth Day, an annual event to celebrate our planet – and the importance of protecting the ...
This week, scientists discovered the interstellar origins of a meteor that crashed into Earth in 2014, and DNA was extracted from the bones of 13th-century ...
Last week's attempted lunar lander by SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft didn't quite go as planned. Actually, that's putting it mildly; it totally crashed. Nevertheless ...
Earlier this April, Israel was on track to become part of a select and until now closed group of countries that have landed a machine on the Moon. The crash of ...
Like many in Israel and around the world, I held my breath on Thursday, April 11, as I watched what I hoped would be the successful landing of the SpaceIL ...
The Israeli start-up behind last week's failed lunar landing said Thursday that it is still investigating a malfunction that caused the spacecraft to plummet to the ...
The Israeli start-up behind last week's failed lunar landing says human error may have caused the spacecraft to crash into the moon. SpaceIL, the non-profit that ...
A team of researchers from the United States, Germany and France discovered the signature of the helium hydride ion (HeH+) in NGC 7027, a planetary nebula ...
Scientists believe that around 100000 years after the big bang, helium and hydrogen combined to make a molecule called helium hydride for the first time.
Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang—the notion that an impossibly hot, dense universe exploded into the one we know today. But what do we know ...
SpaceX has gone to unique lengths for the third launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket and made an exhaustive webpage dedicated to the mission, reviewing its ...
A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, no one is sure what it is telling us about the nature of reality — and Lee Smolin's book adds to a stream of ...
I'll always be grateful to David Albert. In the early 1990s, when I was struggling to write an article called “Quantum Philosophy,” Albert, a philosopher of physics ...
The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with ...
A machine that mimics biological life as we know it. A new biomaterial built in a Cornell University bioengineering lab uses synthetic DNA to continuously and ...
Scientists just got one step closer to creating living machines — or at least machines that mimic biological life as we know it. A new biomaterial built in a Cornell ...
The line between human-made materials and living organisms just got more blurred. Researchers have created a new biomaterial that isn't alive, but which ...
You may have heard that NASA has plans to go back to the moon in the 2020s, but the agency is not aiming to land just anywhere. Engineers want to study the ...
As President Trump continues to push America's space exploration program forward and have astronauts return to the Moon by 2024, NASA is attempting to do ...
After years of painstaking conservation, Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit will be shown this summer at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to ...
DENVER — You've seen the first close-up of a black hole. Now, get ready to see the faint wisps of matter surrounding the object. The international team ...
In the NewsAccomplishing what was previously thought to be impossible, a team of international astronomers has captured an image of a black hole's silhouette.
On April 10, the world got to see the first image taken of a black hole in space, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope, a worldwide collaboration of astronomers ...
Two decades ago, Eric Agol, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle, first modeled how a black hole's intense gravity would bend light around it ...
There's a bright magnetar photobombing the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, frustrating astronomers' efforts to study the black hole ...
To celebrate the 29th anniversary of the launch of Hubble Space Telescope, NASA and ESA released a stunning photo taken by the space telescope. Hubble ...
Twenty years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a giant crab in the sky. Now, just before its 29th birthday (Hubble was launched into space April 24, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 29th birthday with the release of a stunning image of the Southern Crab Nebula. The nebula is made of two ...
For Hubble's 29th anniversary of its launch, astronomers have released a gorgeous image of the Southern Crab, a bizarre and spectacular nebula created by ...
In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers captured this colorful look at the hourglass-shaped ...
Opinion: A lunar landing won't create more hospital beds or help those forced to subside on meagre benefits, but it will unite us and inspire a new generation to ...
A camera aboard the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander captured this picture of the moon from an altitude of 15 kilometers, or about 49,000 feet. Credit: SpaceILA ...
A city on Mars could provide a blank slate for a new economy. Its first settlers may try to establish a socialist society, or they could prioritize a city with limited ...
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A newly opened educational centre in the Gobi Desert has been set up to allow ...
NASA's planet hunting satellite, the Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS), has made a new discovery in the depths of space. Last month, TESS ...
NASA's new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and its ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a NASA astronaut with ties to western Pennsylvania will blast off into space.
The Cygnus spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman, has rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a months-long resupply mission.
NASA extends astronaut stays and pays Russia for more Soyuz flights while it waits for Boeing and SpaceX to provide long-awaited commercial crew options.
A NASA piggyback experiment that was fastened to the top of the Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” may have survived the spacecraft's failed lunar landing, experts ...
There is something intrinsically uplifting about space travel. And although Beresheet's mission did not finish with the planned moon landing, the very fact of an ...
The Araguaian river dolphin of Brazil was thought to be solitary with little social structure that would require communication. But researchers from the University ...
Since the CRISPR genome editing technology was invented in 2012, it has shown great promise to treat a number of intractable diseases. However, scientists ...
Hey there, Hibiscadelphus woodii. How you been? The plant, which is also known as "Wood's hau kuahiwi" and was thought to be extinct, is apparently still ...
Following the successful landing of its Chang'e 4 spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, China is looking to expand its space program by exploring an asteroid ...
The asteroid will return next year for another close, but perfectly safe, encounter with planet Earth. A giant asteroid thought to be so large that it could fit in the ...
An asteroid the size of a house whizzed past earth yesterday. It wasn't close enough to do any damage, and thankfully it is the closest space rock we'll see this ...
Physicists have developed an amazingly simple device that allows heat to flow temporarily from a cold to a warm object without an external power supply.
“Mercury's interior is still active, due to the molten core that powers the planet's weak magnetic field, relative to Earth's,” said Antonio Genova, an assistant ...
Watching the way Mercury spins, NASA planetary scientists have succeeded in deducing its inner composition. The researchers from NASA's Goddard Space ...
A massive great white shark — likely weighing 1200 pounds — was spotted in the Gulf of Mexico this week, and scientists say it may not be the only one.
Solid-state batteries, which use solids instead of liquids to ferry ions through their core, are attracting billions in investment, thanks to their potential for reducing ...
What will a three-degree-warmer world look like? How will plants fare in more extreme weather conditions? When experiencing stress or damage from various ...
Welcome to Edition 1.45 of the Rocket Report! This week, half of our stories concern the biggest rockets on the planet, from Blue Origin engine tests at Marshall ...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Private space company Blue Origin will refurbish the historic test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center to support testing of the ...
In pursuit of an astronomical breakthrough, a global team of scientists used conflict, dissent and relentless bias-testing to produce the first-ever image of a black ...
For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, ...
As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and faster, resulting in an exponential increase in data, the need for efficiency in predicting gene function is growing, ...
Scientists have unearthed a tentacled sea creature that crawled through prehistoric oceans 340 million years ago, and of course it's now called Sollasina ...
RNA sequencing is a technique used to analyze entire genomes by looking at the expression of their genes. Today, such genome-wide expression analyses are ...
The 68 million-year-old remains of a young Tyrannosaurus rex are now up for grabs on eBay, appearing alongside 50-piece dinosaur play sets and fiery-eyed T.
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Taking a step closer to a "green" replacement for fossil fuels, a research team that includes a chemical engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has ...
In the two years since the Cassini probe ended its mission and burned up in Saturn's rings, data from its recordings is still being analyzed and astronomers are ...
A team of researchers from China, the U.S. and Australia has found that adding the rare-earth element samarium to piezoelectric crystals can dramatically ...
A Chinese-built Mars simulation base in the Gansu province opened its doors to visitors this week. The facility, dubbed Mars Base 1 Camp, comprises several ...
About 100 excited Chinese teenagers completed a five-hour tour of a space colony against a desolate backdrop not unlike the desert planet of Tatooine, the ...
Origami is not just for making paper sculptures; engineers are developing origami-inspired structures that unfold in outer space and inside blood vessels.
Nothing quite prepares you for the moment you find yourself face to face with a polar bear. In my long career filming nature documentaries, I have encountered ...
Water, despite its central place in so many processes vital to life on Earth, remains a chemical mystery in many respects. One of those mysteries is the nature of ...
April 19th, 2019 by Steve Hanley. One-fifth of the energy consumed in the world today is use to cool people and things. As average temperatures rise, more ...
With refrigeration sucking up about one-fifth of all the energy we produce, the pressure is on to find an alternative. Luckily, a new paper says pressure is exactly ...
In a recent study, researchers have found an eco-friendly material that could replace the traditional coolants used in most refrigerators and air conditioners.
There's no question whatsoever that if you're a dog lover, the iFetch Interactive Ball Launcher for Dogs is the coolest toy you'll ever come across. Plug it in and ...
Astrophysicist and author Elizabeth Tasker knows one thing for certain — if you stand next to her for long enough you are bound to hear some sort of planet fact.
Frogs, salamanders, and toads across the world are now under attack from a widening range of interacting pathogens that threaten to devastate global ...
Amphibians across the world are experiencing “catastrophic population declines” from a widening range of interacting pathogens, scientists say. Fungal disease ...
