In case you haven't been keeping track of the plight of NASA's Opportunity rover, I'll get you caught back up: A dust storm covered Mars, the rover fell asleep, ...
In a blog post, NASA said that it may never again have contact with the Opportunity rover, after the craft got caught up in a Martian dust storm in the middle of ...
Despite what so many people would love to believe, NASA hasn't discovered any evidence of past or present intelligent life on Mars. So, when the Curiosity ...
Did you notice a bright flash of light around midnight Thursday night/early Friday morning? If so, you may have spotted a fireball! Dr. Bill Cooke from NASA's ...
Crazy video caught on a local woman's doorbell camera shows a blazing fireball in the sky. Viewer Morgan Elizabeth in Ooltewah, Tennessee shared her view ...
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Exoplanets similar to Earth, artist concept. Credit: NASA
Scientists have shown that water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) which are between two to four times the size ...
Watery worlds could be common throughout the universe, scientists have said in a discovery that could have major effects on the search for life elsewhere in the ...
Harvard University researchers analysed data from the exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and the Gaia mission and found half their weight may be ...
Water is a key ingredient for life — and new research suggests we might find it all over the galaxy. Scientists looked at the mass of Super-Earths, a kind of planet ...
In a sense, this is the most unusual place in the universe that we've ever seen” says an astronomer at UC Riverside that found that a murky void in space 500 ...
A rifle bullet moves at about 1,700 miles an hour. That's fast, but NASA's newly launched Parker Solar Probe will go more than 250 times faster than that near the ...
The Mobile *Service* Tower is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard, on Saturday, Aug.
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A mid-Cretaceous beetle had a cavity filled with hair at the base of its mandibles for collecting pollen from plants known as cycads.Chenyang Cai
The discovery is among the strongest evidence in the fossil record that the insects pollinated prehistoric cycads, a plant that preceded flowering plants.
The remains of a 99-million-year old beetle have been discovered, perfectly preserved in amber, fossilized resin that originates from the bark of a tree.
While examining a boganiid beetle preserved inside a piece of amber for 99 million years, researchers found a welcome surprise: flecks of pollen collected ...
Cycads, a type of seed plant with evergreen leaves and a woody trunk, are highly present in the fossil record, which reveals that they were once more abundant.
What the hell is going on up in there in space? Just as I was beginning to accept the fact that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, I find out that Earth has more than one ...
Ian Carnelli leads a team at the European Space Agency dedicated to asteroid defence – come learn about his mission this September at New Scientist Live.
We've all been taught from a very young age that the Earth has just one natural satellite. The Moon is there, it's easy to see at night from just about anywhere, ...
When it comes to heat in our Solar System, Mercury takes the top crown, at least as far as planets are concerned. You wouldn't last more than a few seconds on ...
An international team, led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), who joined forces with theoreticians from the University of Bern (UNIBE), ...
Scientists find vaporized iron and titanium in the atmosphere of Kelt-9b, an exoplanet in the constellation Cygnus that is the hottest ever discovered.
In the course of discovering planets beyond our Solar System, astronomers have found some truly interesting customers! In addition to “Super-Jupiters” ...
Dr. Michael McDonald of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and co-authors have uncovered a new massive cluster of galaxies hiding in ...
MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light years from Earth, is made up of ...
New research shows a black hole-fuelled quasar shining 46 billion times brighter than the Sun is not the lone wolf astronomers once believed. Massachusetts ...
Going to space is cool, but it's not known for being the most comfortable of experiences. Aerospace company Lockheed Martin is one of six companies tasked by ...
Scientists just worked out a way of rapidly producing a mineral capable of storing carbon dioxide (CO2) - giving us a potentially exciting option for dealing with ...
SCIENTISTS in Canada have created a mineral which strips carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, theoretically ending the threat to the planet from global ...
A team of researchers led by Trent University's Professor Ian Power has developed an accelerated way to produce magnesite (MgCO3) at room temperature -- a ...
For the last two decades, in particular, the very real consequences that human activity have had in terms of carbon emissions creation have been laid bare for ...
Welcome to Edition 1.13 of the Rocket Report! This week's issue covers a lot of ground, from more commercial space activity in China, to new Russian launch ...
Ground crews lift the second stage of a Delta 2 rocket into the mobile gantry at Space Launch Complex 2-West at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The second stage ...
The step-by-step stacking of United Launch Alliance's final Delta 2 rocket was completed in June at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for liftoff Sept.
The Giant Magellan Telescope is finally under construction at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The telescope is on track to be the world's largest and ...
As group photos go, NASA's latest snapshot of 15000 galaxies across the universe has to be one of the biggest, with the epic image spanning not only distance.
NASA's spacecraft New Horizons has found new evidence of a "wall" of hydrogen at the edge of the solar system, encircling all the planets and objects orbiting ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, now on its way to its second target, may have detected evidence of a wall of hydrogen that scientists theorize exists at the ...
THIS “mind-blowing” photo of the mesmerising Northern Lights of the Aurora Borealis was captured by astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Sending missions to Mars for a living sounds like a dream job. But not every day can be launch day - so what do Nasa's spacecraft engineers get up to the rest of ...
"Coal consumption affecting climate," read a small headline in a New Zealand newspaper 106 years ago. The story gave a stunningly succinct explanation of ...
The 1912 news clip that links coal to climate change has cropped up online again. While it demonstrates that the ideas have circulated in the public sphere.
As soon as next year, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft will whip around the earth at 17,500 miles per hour, ferrying two NASA astronauts to the International ...
SpaceX has publicly revealed the sleek, minimalist design of the access arm that NASA astronauts will soon use to board Crew Dragon spacecraft, bringing to ...
HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Elon Musk's SpaceX hosted an open house here Monday, offering a rare peek inside the Willy Wonka-like rocket factory that also serves ...
NASA has been poking around the dust and rock on Mars for some time now, and as far as we know there's nothing to indicate that any living organisms ...
While a global dust storm still covers most of the Red Planet's surface, NASA is having a little fun while collecting data and making images of its polar region.
Astronomers were just looking through photographs received from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Monday, when they noticed something slightly out ...
A Nasa spacecraft orbiting Mars has found the shape of a 'Muppet face' on the planet's surface. But don't worry, the space agency isn't claiming to have ...
Extra terrestrials may not be openly roaming the Red Planet, but muppets might be. A recent image taken by a camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ...
The access arm astronauts will transit when boarding SpaceX's Crew Dragon commercial capsule has arrived at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center ...
Just two weeks after the announcement of the NASA astronauts who will fly the company's DM-2 and Crew-1 flights, SpaceX has provided more information and ...
SpaceX's manned launches are taking one step closer to reality. New images published this week shows how Elon Musk's space-faring firm is preparing to send ...
They left before the eruption came, abandoning their island, their frescoes, their furniture. When the volcano blew, sending ash more than 18 miles up, into the ...
An ancient eruption on the present day Greek island of Santorini devastated the Minoan people, possibly inspiring the myth of Atlantis. (Credit: Aleksandra H.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft may have spotted a strange and mysterious structure at the boundary of our solar system and the space beyond. Scientists ...
Nearly 4 billion miles from Earth, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected evidence of a glowing wall of hydrogen at the edge of the solar system. Writing ...
Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists including Carnegie's Alexander Goncharov to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the ...
Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the interiors of giant planets -- where experts ...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they were “converging on the truth” in an experiment to understand hydrogen in its liquid metallic ...
Cosmonauts broke one of the cameras recording their long spacewalk outside the ISS for RT's panoramic 360 *content*. They had been tasked with launching ...
A small galaxy some 70 million light-years from Earth has been hiding a big secret. This week, astronomers announced they'd found a supermassive black hole ...
A MONSTROUS black hole 3.5 million of times heavier than our Sun was discovered by a team of international astronomers, at heart of the distant Fornax ...
Astronomers discover a dwarf galaxy with a black hole weighing millions of suns - a feature typically more common in large galaxies like the Milky Way.
Beijing (CNN) China has unveiled a new lunar rover as it prepares to become the first nation in the world to explore the dark side of the moon later this year.
To name its spacecraft, China often turns to folktales and mythical lovers. Now it's inviting people all over the world to help name the rover (link in Chinese) it ...
The United States and Russia aren't the only two nations working hard at realizing their space-faring dreams. China has quickly ramped up its high-flying ...
Just being aboard the International Space Station seems like it would be a pretty stressful experience — I mean you're floating up there... in space and stuff, you ...
The ALMA telescope in Chile has transformed how we see the universe, showing us otherwise invisible parts of the cosmos. This array of incredibly precise ...
A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered jets of warm water ...
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory (AO), the second-largest radio telescope in the world, is about to get a major upgrade. Nearly one year after the 55-year-old ...
A GIANT tear in the Sun's corona ejecting a stream of energised particles at Earth has been captured by NASA as the space agency mapped the Sun's intense ...
Are magnetic fields an important guiding force for gas accreting to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) like the one that our Milky Way galaxy hosts? The role of ...
Earth appears to be unique and inhabited by living creatures, but the building blocks required for life to bloom are actually quite common, according to new ...
ALIEN life could exist on MILLIONS of planet just like “pretty normal” Earth, researchers have claimed in a huge boost for the search for extraterrestrials.
Tiny fossilised bacteria dating back 3.4 billion years was found in Strelley Pool in Pilbara, Western Australia, five years ago. Analysis shows it was likely the first ...
Scientists have confirmed that the 3.4 billion year old Strelley Pool microfossils had chemical characteristics similar to modern bacteria. This all but confirms their ...
Chemicals found in 3.4 billion-year-old rocks have confirmed them as contenders for the title of oldest evidence of life on Earth. Discovered in Western Australia ...
Fossilized tree sap, called amber, is an absolutely amazing substance. It lasts for an incredibly long time, and it has yielded some of the most incredible fossil ...
Scientific publications are making a case for researching psychedelic drugs like LSD, peyote cactus, and mushrooms. Until recently, psychedelics' potential ...
For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done. Just as too many cooks ...
For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done. Just as too many cooks ...
Fire ants' secret to success is prioritizing efficiency over fairness. Robot teams could use that strategy to work more efficiently in tight, crowded quarters.
Clusters of silver atoms captured in zeolites, a porous material with small channels and voids, have remarkable light-emitting properties. They can be used for ...
A narrow passageway can easily become clogged or jammed if too much traffic tries to enter at once or there is competition between the flow of traffic in each ...
Plants need iron as a micronutrient, and they extract it from the rhizosphere by secreting chelating agents. Insect pests, such as the western corn rootworm, ...
Maize plants release secondary metabolites into the soil that bind to iron and thereby facilitate its uptake by the plant. The Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica ...
To survive in highly complex environments, plants universally rely on specialized, or secondary, metabolites to withstand abiotic challenges (for example, wax to ...
Commercial reverse osmosis processes for water desalination use membranes made by the polymerization of polyamide at the oil/water interface. Chowdhury et ...
Researchers used electrospray technology to create ultra-thin, ultra-smooth polyamide membranes for reverse osmosis. This scalable process allows for better ...
Smoothing out the rough patches of a material widely used to filter saltwater could make producing freshwater more affordable, researchers report in the Aug.
More than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs — a demand that will only grow with larger ...
Currently, more than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs. That demand will only grow with larger ...
We may be closer to discovering intelligent alien life than at any other point in history. But once we discover it, what's next? How would we communicate?
“Most of the building blocks we have looked at in other planetary systems have a composition broadly similar to that of the Earth”, said Dr Siyi Xu of the Gemini ...
The Earth's building blocks seem to be built from 'pretty normal' ingredients, according to researchers working with the world's most powerful telescopes.
We might think our planet is unique, but Earth's ingredients are uncannily similar to those found in planetary systems up to 465 light-years away, according to ...
For decades, scientists have theorized that beyond the edge of the solar system, at a distance of up to 50000 AU (0.79 ly) from the sun, there lies a massive ...
Submersible drones are helping climatologists assess climate impact in the icy seas surrounding Antarctica. Until the development of these diving robots, ...
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Experiments with the world's biggest laser have given scientists *fresh* insights into Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets in our solar system. Inside these giant ...
An X-ray image (in blue) with a zoom in optical image (gold and brown) showing the central galaxy of a hidden cluster, which harbors a supermassive black hole. Credit: Taweewat Somboonpanyakul
MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light years from Earth, is made up of ...
Scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light years from Earth, is made up of ...
“We started asking ourselves why we had not found it earlier, because it's very extreme in its properties and very bright,” says Michael McDonald, assistant ...
French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered Helium on August 18, 1868 in Guntur (Madras state) now in Andhra Pradesh. He was observing solar eclipse and ...
Could 3D printing save the planet's coral reefs? That's the theory behind an experimental project in the Maldives which aims to help coral reefs survive the ...
World's largest 3D printed reef was installed at Summer Island in the Maldives, in what is hoped could be a new technology-driven method to help coral reefs ...
Leonid Solovyev is Director of Operations for The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, dedicated to advancing understanding of the universe at the deepest levels.
Thanks to technology that cosmonauts are installing on the International Space Station, scientists will get an extraterrestrial view of baby turtles and other wildlife ...
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