February's full moon will brighten the skies as the biggest supermoon of the year. The supermoon occurs during this full moon because it will be closest in its ...
ST. GEORGE — A supermoon that's set to light up the skies this Tuesday is arriving during a special time of year traditionally referred to by Native Americans as ...
Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound ...
A year in the International Space Station changed some of the activity in astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system compared to his twin brother Mark, rendering his ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared ...
The U.S. space agency has since had to rely on Russia's Roscosmos program to ferry astronauts to the orbital space station at a cost of roughly $80 million per ...
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his ...
Last week we said a somber goodbye to NASA's Opportunity rover, which had been active on Mars for almost 15 years. So what better way to remember the ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Mars Opportunity rover has completed its missions after nearly 15 years of exploring the surface of Mars, NASA announced last ...
Humanity uses a lot of energy, and while solar power here on Earth is doing a reasonable job of contributing to the power mix, scientists have long hypothesized ...
China's space ambitions are shifting into a higher orbit. Following its successful and world-beating trip to the far side of the moon, China is preparing to build a ...
Kindergartners from Georgetown Day School in Washington D.C., help NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro field questions to McClain, who's an astronaut serving on the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared ...
Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound ...
Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound ...
THE 'RemoveDEBRIS' satellite launched to protect the Earth from almost 8000 tonnes of hazardous space junk orbiting the planet at speeds of 30000 mph has ...
A sense of humour will be vital for any team to keep morale high on a two-year trip to Mars. The joker role will be tested in NASA's group mission simulations at ...
NASA has said goodbye to its Mars Opportunity rover nearly 16 years after the robotic explorer blasted from Earth towards Mars – but what was the last message ...
America bid farewell to an old, trusty friend this month as NASA closed the book on the record-setting Mars Opportunity rover, officially declaring an end to its ...
After a battery fail it could not be resuscitated from, NASA's Opportunity Rover gasped its last breath on the Red Planet (thanks in large part to an epic dust storm) ...
ASTONISHING never before seen photographs of the first moon landing show astronauts blasting off into space and plunging the US flag into the lunar surface.
Our wish is to fly this year,” NASA official Thomas Zurbuchen said at the surprise announcement of a new Moon mission overnight. “We want to incentive speed ...
After months of unrelated political turmoil, multiple stop-gap spending bills, and an unprecedented government shutdown, NASA's 2019 budget was finally ...
On February 14, NASA met with representatives from the space industry to discuss plans to return to the Moon in the next few years – and to place humans back ...
The asteroid, dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2013 MD8, will pass Earth on a so-called “Earth Close Approach”. NASA estimates the space rock will zip by next week ...
The space rock passed within 5.9 times the distance to the moon. Earlier today, Earth was buzzed by a 79-foot asteroid on what astronomers described as its ...
Soft, squishy, ancient spiders are hard to investigate - they don't fossilise as easily as bones or exoskeletons. So you can imagine how excited researchers were ...
Fossil hunters in Korea discovered long-dead spiders preserved in rock. And to the delight of scientists, the arachnids' eyes are still reflective — some 110 ...
Typically when scientists find a fossil, the fossil is the remains of creatures that have bones. Finding fossils of soft-bodied creatures such as spiders is.
A NASA director warned that Elon Musk's proposed Starship design was going to be "orders of magnitude" more difficult than any NASA project in history.
Last month, Elon Musk tweeted out a test on his regenerative heat shield design that he hopes will save Starship from burning up on reentry into Earth's ...
Musk has only shared Starship's design & features in bits & pieces, still to unveil the rocket in full detail. tech2 News Staff Feb 18, 2019 11:01:58 IST. SpaceX's ...
A duo of SpaceX job postings at the company's South Texas facilities have confirmed that both Starship and Super Heavy “flight article” vehicles will initially be ...
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Experts say a fireball streaking across the night sky over central Florida this week was a large meteor. Spalding Allsky Camera Network ...
Even Georgia O'Keeffe noticed the pin-sized blisters bubbling on the surface of her paintings. For decades, conservationists and scholars assumed these tiny ...
While one Martian rover, Opportunity, has died, its younger cousin Curiosity has just solved a mystery. It measured tiny changes in the Red Planet's gravity, ...
A harpoon designed to capture orbital junk has been successfully tested in space for the first time as part of the active debris-removal demonstration mission ...
NASA and other space agencies around the world have accomplished some seriously amazing things in space, but there's been a big price to pay for those ...
Last summer, a new type of debris-hunting satellite was released from the International Space Station (ISS). It's known as the RemoveDebris spacecraft, ...
This footage shows the first successful test of the 'space harpoon' that's been tasked with clearing up some of the junk orbiting our planet. The RemoveDebris ...
Our first interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, is still a mystery. Despite some speculation, it's not a spaceship... but it might be a three-dimensional fractal snowflake.
Nanomaterials might just prove the key to the next wave of planetary rovers. NASA has poured $2 million into a Goddard Space Flight Center team developing ...
Mars has long been thought to be a geologically dead world. Could there still be volcanic activity beneath its surface? A subsurface lake at Mars' south pole ...
About a third of the “normal” matter in our Universe is missing. And NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may have just found it. Scientists have confidently ...
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but to the very edge of the universe, as far as it is ...
New fabrics being grown in laboratories may provide a viable alternative to the materials currently shedding vast quantities of plastic into the world's oceans.
Scientists are calling for a worldwide ban on the development of killer robots. Human Rights Watch and 88 other non-governmental organisations have set up ...
Recent advances to address hunger through agricultural advancement have been shown to boost crop growth by 40 percent by creating a shortcut for a glitch ...
Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of the “normal,” baryonic, matter in the Universe.
When it comes to understanding exactly how much matter makes up our universe, scientists have long had to overestimate the total based on what they've ...
Astronomers have identified a river of stars flowing across our galaxy and covering most of the southern sky. The 4000 estimated stars that comprise the stream ...
While the finding does not support the hollow earth theory, it does provide some interesting insights into geology and the history of the Earth. Mountains larger ...
TheTribune: WASHINGTON: Scientists have discovered massive mountains in the Earth's mantle, an advance that may change our understanding of how the ...
Scientists have discovered massive mountains in the Earth's mantle. Massive mountains. Earth. formation of the planet. huge interior mountains. Earth's mantle.
![Up-close look at a detailed section of 'Pedernal' shows micron-sized protrusions from metal soaps.Georgia O'Keeffe. Pedernal, 1941. Oil on canvas, 19 x 30 1/4 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.172] Credit: Dale Kronkright/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jEvKGpOaEh7tp0Orpi75CI5GF0RDYuDS4Wfirwq148QOZShi3Swcn9JfCkO8sUHJoRKGO5LACgemaR5E7k=pf-w200-h200)
