To explore the solar system beyond our planet, one important factor is the ability to locate water which can be used for drinking and for creating rocket fuel....
A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters will help by providing a map of water ice believed to be as little as an inch (2.5 centimeters) below the ...
Intended as a potential aid for future space travelers, NASA has released a water map of Mars. Based on remote sensing data from the space agency's Mars ...
A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red Planet, according ...
The Geminid meteor shower is one of the most active and dependable displays of the year, according to the American Meteor Society. This year, the shower will ...
Grab a scarf and some gloves and prepare to watch one of the year's best meteor showers. The Geminids peak this Friday, December 13, marking the final ...
House Judiciary Committee will reconvene to vote on articles of impeachment, the Geminids meteor shower lights the sky and more things to start your Friday ...
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet ...
Interstellar comet and galaxy Comet 2I/Borisov appears as a bright dot within a haze of dust, with a distant spiral galaxy in the background of the Hubble Space ...
After conducting a flight readiness review today, NASA gave its go-ahead for launching Boeing's CST-100 Starliner space taxi on an uncrewed demonstration ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing's Starliner crew capsule finally has a launch date for its first test flight to the International Space Station. After an ...
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Jupiter is a turbulent place. Its colossal red cyclone is, of course, the planet's most famous storm. But when NASA's Juno probe arrived in 2016, it found ...
Scientists have discovered the deepest point on Earth, buried under the Antarctic ice sheet. It's underneath the Denman Glacier, 11500 feet below sea level.
A new map showing what the land is like underneath the ice on Antarctica is helping scientists predict the impact of global warming on the frozen continent.
The deepest point on any of Earth's continents has been discovered by scientists. The trench, which stretches two miles below sea level, is found beneath the ...
Glaciologists have released the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. As part of the BedMachine Antarctica project, ...
At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in ...
It has been at least 10000 years since a human saw a mammoth die of natural causes on the Arctic tundra. But now we have a good idea how old such a ...
Scientists have calculated the lifespans of extinct animals, including ancient humans, from the DNA they left behind. Our extinct "cousins", the Neanderthals and ...
PARIS, Dec 13 — An Australian research team say they have come up with a “lifespan clock” which provides accurate maximum age estimates for vertebrates, ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx is on a mission to bring back the first sample from an asteroid, and the team behind it has found the perfect place to collect that material.
With so many recent scientific advances focused on the mini, micro, nano, and molecular scales, there is a tendency to overlook the titanic biology of giants that ...
Blue whales, the largest creatures to have evolved on the planet, are tagged during summer 2019 in the Eastern Pacific off the coast of central California by the ...
WHY ARE whales so big? One answer is simply that they can be. The size of land animals is constrained in part by their need to support themselves against the ...
Although many people think of dinosaurs as being the largest creatures to have lived on Earth, the true largest known animal is still here today—the blue whale.
NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, aims to carry astronauts to the moon in 2024 as part of the Artemis project. This weekend at the Michoud Assembly...
Come 2024, NASA has plans to send astronauts to the moon as part of the organization's Artemis project. To do so, NASA is building a rocket as part of its Space ...
No, it's not a follow-up song to Lou Bega's one-hit wonder "Mambo No. 5." The light from the galaxy known as MAMBO-9 traveled for 13 billion years to reach us, ...
While working at the NASA Johnson Space Center during the 1970s, astrophysicist Donald Kessler predicted that collisions between space debris would ...
PARIS -- A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Dec. 9, a *fresh* approach to ...
For all its vastness, space is notoriously lacking in landfills. That means a lot of the stuff we humans send out there—be it satellites or rocket parts—ends up ...
TOM LEONARD: The four-armed robot will use its own thruster rocket to 'de-orbit' and descend towards the Earth, plunging hunter and quarry down into the ...
SpaceX's Cargo Dragon has successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's CRS-19 resupply mission, marking what is ...
At a ceremony this week at NASA's New Orleans assembly plant where Boeing is building what will be the most powerful rocket ever to fly, NASA Administrator ...
In the 2010s, a new player in the space industry emerged, focused on a new way of doing business. SpaceX has inspired other companies to pursue private ...
Somewhere in the ocean there could be a whale that has been alive since 25 years before the USA existed and seven years before Admiral Nelson was born.
SAN FRANCISCO — Far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls miles of bedrock — and extending through that bedrock for close to 1,000 ...
A University of Oklahoma research group is reporting the detection of extragalactic planet-mass objects in a second and third galaxy beyond the Milky Way after ...
In 2014, scientists found one of the key components of life out in the cosmos -- an exoplanet with water vapor in its atmosphere. Now, a team of scientists has ...
In a study published recently in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers analyzed spectroscopic atmospheric data from 19 exoplanets, ranging ...
A new study has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications for the search for water in the Solar System and ...
The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation ...
A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a *fresh* approach to fixing up ...
A US$132 million satellite described as a giant Pac-Man will be launched to gobble up a single nugget of space junk and then burn up on reentry. This mission ...
In the olden days, celestial events were taken as omens which foretold the future. So you might wonder what on Earth it means that an asteroid is heading our ...
NASA'S asteroid trackers have detected a giant space rock barreling towards Earth on the unlucky date of Friday the 13th – but will the asteroid slam into our ...
A scientist from NASA explained the factors that make comets serious threats to Earth. According to the scientist, an impact event caused by a comet would be ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been continuously monitoring an asteroid and has issued a warning that this asteroid could ...
Heat transfer in solids is typically conducted through either electrons or atomic vibrations known as phonons. In a vacuum, heat has long been thought to be ...
Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition ...
Researchers have made the first precise measurements of a pulsar—the dense, whirling remains of an exploded star—thanks partly to a collaboration with ...
Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes ...
Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes ...
Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a ...
SAN FRANCISCO – NASA will continue to buy Earth observation data gathered by commercial satellite constellations in the wake of a pilot program, said Kevin ...
In a new collection released by NASA called 'Earth at night', consists of spectacular images of our planet's nightlights that has mesmerized the people.
Spider webs are one of nature's most fascinating manifestations. Many spiders extrude proteinaceous silk to weave sticky webs that ensnare unsuspecting prey ...
New fossils discovered preserved in amber have revealed that lice have been feeding on much larger hosts for some 100 million years. Scientists had been ...
Paleontologists have discovered that feathered dinosaurs were eaten alive by lice-like insects, according to a new study. The researchers looked at pieces of ...
The Decade, Reviewed looks back at the 2010s and how it changed human society forever. From 2010 to 2019, our species experienced seismic shifts in ...
Could the Tesla Cybertruck take a ride on SpaceX's Mars-bound Starship? If Elon Musk's musings are any indication, the chance is higher than it may seem.
A newly described fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to a University of Michigan ...
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that ...
Physicists think they've found something unusual at the core of our galaxy: a vast, turbulent cloud of dark matter that's creating powerful blasts of cosmic ...
A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used atmospheric data from 19 exoplanets to obtain detailed measurements of their chemical and ...
Length? 26 feet. Skull? 2.5 feet. The newly discovered Asfaltovenator vialidadi joins a host of Jurassic megapredators. Gabriel Lio/Ludwig Maximilian University ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big ...
Our home galaxy has a new, super precise mass measurement: about 890 billion times the mass of our sun. That's 3.9 tredecillion lbs. (1.8 tredecillion ...
Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. Following the release of the very first ...
The Physics World 2019 Breakthrough of the Year goes to astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope for capturing the first direct visual evidence of a ...
It was a great year for research of all kinds as a team of astronomers from around the globe delivered the first photo of a black hole. Over several days in April ...
MIT physicists are reigniting the possibility, which they previously had snuffed out, that a bright burst of gamma rays at the center of our galaxy may be the result ...
Research led by the University of Arizona has resulted in a set of equations that describes and predicts commonalities across life despite its enormous diversity.
Tropical glaciers in Africa and South America began their retreat simultaneously at the end of the last ice age about 20000 years ago, according to a Dartmouth ...
The first new Falcon 9 booster SpaceX has debuted in almost half a year safely returned to port after a successful first launch and landing, setting the reusable ...
Researchers say a new method to analyse data from individual human cells could be a step-change for diagnosing some of the most devastating diseases, ...
One mystery in our universe is a step closer to being solved. NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched last year to help scientists understand the sun. Now, it has ...
Nearly 70% of the Earth is covered with oceans, but an animation reveals what our planet would look like if they all disappeared -with most land becoming ...
Every organ in the body is capable, to some extent, of repairing itself after an injury. As part of this process, scar tissue forms and then recedes to make room for ...
It took only a few seconds to spot one. Then another. As I walked into the small park around noon, dozens of rats could be seen scurrying in every direction.
Astronomers have spotted an unusually distant star-forming galaxy, the light of which took a whopping 13 billion years to reach Earth. Perhaps most incredibly ...
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way? A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source of energy excess at the galactic center ...
A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa's most reviled bird species illustrates how human ...
Swiss chemical engineers may have taken an important step in finding the best way to strip damaging carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue gases expelled by ...
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture ...
For more than fifty years, scientists have thought that the origin of speech depended on one pivotal moment 200,000 years ago. That's when the human larynx ...
Geologists say a huge sheet of pumice that's been floating around the Pacific Ocean came from the eruption of an underwater volcano 31 miles off the coast of ...
A parasitic wasp has shown tremendous potential attacking and controlling spotted wing drosophila—an invasive, destructive fruit fly that costs Oregon growers ...
Humongous space rocks fly past Earth on a regular basis, and have in the past collided with our planet, leading to unparalleled mass-extinctions. To make ...
HUMANS could one day bin rockets and travel to space in giant elevators instead, according to a new report. The idea has been around for more than a century ...
NASA captures lots and lots of lovely photos of Earth being bathed in bright sunlight, but images of our planet shrouded in darkness can be just as beautiful.
NASA has spotted a massive asteroid's expected to approach Earth on Friday. According to the agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the ...
A day after Nasa announced it had located the debris of Chandrayaan-2 lander, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief K Sivan said the Indian space ...
Nasa on Tuesday said its satellite orbiting the Moon has found Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 which crashed on the lunar surface in September. The US ...
