SpaceX is planning to send up to four private citizens into space to take a trip around Earth sometime at the end of 2021 or in early 2022. The spaceflight ...
SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by ...
SpaceX will fly four privately-paying space tourists to orbit in its Crew Dragon capsule, the company unveiled on Tuesday. “This historic mission will forge a path ...
SpaceX will work with space tourism company Space Adventures to send up to four people into space onboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, according to ...
Following a 24-hour delay (due to an issue with a valve component on the rocket's second stage), Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...
With the launch of another 60 satellites on February 17, SpaceX has made yet another installment on its Starlink constellation, bringing the current total to 300.
SpaceX successfully launched its latest cluster of high-speed internet satellites into orbit on Feb. 17 but was unable to land its rocket booster on an autonomous ...
Mars is set to disappear from the North American sky early Tuesday morning due to a rare, eclipse-like event known as occultation. This happens when the earth ...
This is last night's occultation of Mars by the moon. This was the best picture I got, taken two minutes after Mars came out from behind the moon. I added the gray ...
Researchers have described the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade. An articulated skeleton is one where the bones are ...
Around 70000 years ago, a Neanderthal was laid to rest in Shanidar Cave. Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed its entire upper body, including a ...
A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is providing *fresh* evidence that they buried ...
Researchers have uncovered the upper body bones of an adult Neanderthal at a famous "flower burial" site in Iraqi Kurdistan in what they describe as an ...
Exactly a year from now, a capsule will come hurtling through the atmosphere of Mars with the Americans' next big rover. If it survives the "seven minutes of ...
Last week, NASA put out a call for applications for its next class of astronauts. In recent years, when the agency has asked for résumés, the job was shuttling ...
NASA is looking for its new class of astronauts to man the Artemis Generation missions, which are intended to set up a station on the Moon and work to send ...
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Arianespace's third flight of 2020 saw a rocket boost a Japanese telecommunications satellite and a Korean oceanography satellite into orbit from the Guiana ...
The second Ariane 5 mission of the year lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, in South America on a rideshare mission that ...
Astronomers are rediscovering how calculations made by the 'human computer' Elizabeth Williams contributed to the first observations of Pluto 90 years ago.
Apple says the coronavirus outbreak will hurt its manufacturing and sales, Jeff Bezos makes a big commitment to fighting climate change and SpaceX launches ...
Type “ocean” into a Google News search and it will take a total of .3 seconds to wonder if the world is headed to a crumbling end any day now. I know this ...
IN 1990, A year into the journey to Jupiter of an American spacecraft called Galileo, Carl Sagan, a well-known astronomer, turned the probe's instruments back ...
Astronomers have managed to take pictures of Betelgeuse showing that the star, one of the brightest in the Milky Way, has been losing luminosity over recent ...
Betelgeuse -- the 10 million-year-old star that around 900 times larger than the star of our solar system. Categorised as a red supergiant, stars like the ...
WHAT'S THE STORY? THE star Betelgeuse is causing great excitement in the astronomical world as it is clearly getting dimmer. Usually the 11th brightest star in ...
A team of scientists using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands has observed radio waves that carry the distinct signatures of ...
sing the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star ...
In order to further explore our solar system, NASA has chosen four proposals for missions that would investigate Venus, Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon ...
Washington: NASA is funding studies that aim to understand more about Venus, Jupiter's moon Io and a unique and highly active icy moon of Neptune, Triton.
As part of its ongoing Discovery Program, NASA has selected four possible missions to some of the most hostile and enigmatic places in the solar system.
Two NASA-JPL proposals are among the selections: Trident would explore Neptune's moon Triton, while Veritas aims to map Venus' surface to determine the ...
Scientists have detected early warning signs that one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes in South America—according to the United States Geological ...
Uncovered in the 1950s, dinosaur tracks in the Fireclay Caverns at Mount Morgan helped geologist Ross Staines discover how the reptiles walked and which ...
The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved after more than a half a century. University of Queensland ...
Footprints in the Fireclay Caverns at Mount Morgan, near Rockhampton in Australia. Provider: Supplied)(University of Queensland). Share this article via ...
A mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on the ceiling of a cave is solved after more than half a century, following a chance meeting at a fruit market between a ...
Finding dinosaur footprints can be exciting for any scientist. Finding them in a unique place just adds to the fun, but when a set of fossilized footprints was ...
Using a novel technique called clumped isotope paleothermometry, an international team of paleontologists analyzed eggshell fossils representing three major ...
New research from Yale University suggests that blood that coursed through their giant frames would have been warm, rather than cold-blooded, as the ...
The mission publishes its first stream of data on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere - the first findings on the gas giant's water since the agency's 1995 ...
... . “Just when we think we have things figured out, Jupiter reminds us how much we still have to learn,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the ...
Nasa's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the ...
"We found the water in the equator to be greater than what the Galileo probe measured," said Cheng Li, a Juno scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Washington, The largest planet in our solar system may not be as dry as earlier shown by a NASA probe, according to the first science results revealed by the.
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star roughly 700 light-years away from our own Solar System. The second brightest object in the constellation Orion, the ...
There are lots and lots of space rocks hanging out in our solar system. Most of them will never pose a threat to our planet, but a very tiny percentage will indeed ...
MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid. On April 13, 2029, an icy chunk of space rock, wider than ...
A total of five asteroids will approach Earth tomorrow, according to NASA, As indicated in the agency's database, all of the approaching space rocks belong to ...
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science ...
A shocking new study says extreme weather events caused by climate change could result in an economic recession “the likes of which we've never seen...
A team of physicists at the University of Sussex has successfully developed the first nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images of the interior ...
A team of physicists at the University of Sussex has successfully developed the first nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images of the interior ...
Scientists are warning that the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is showing early signs of impending catastrophic collapse, after satellite data showed substantial ...
Tungurahua, an active stratovolcano in Ecuador, is an ancient mountain that's picked up many names over the centuries. In the indigenous tongue of the ...
Nuclei can be round, like a soccer ball, or oblong, like a football. Others are slightly oblong but misshapen, like a potato. One of the only two ways to observe the ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In NASA's 62-year history, there have only been 100 flight directors. Only 15 of them have been women, and now, the agency has ...
The researchers first developed an experimental rotating detonation engine (shown here) where they could control different parameters, such as the size of the ...
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station Tuesday (Feb. 18) to make a special delivery of cheese, candy and science ...
The microbiome of our ancestors might have been more important for human evolution than previously thought, according to a new study published in Frontiers ...
Humans are one of the most successful species on the planet: We live on frozen continents and arid deserts, create tools that help us survive and even push the ...
The Asteroid PZ39 may lead to the simultaneous occurrence of earthquakes, tsunamis and other effects of grave consequences which may also spread to the ...
NASA's asteroid tracking system has detected three near-Earth objects that are expected to approach the planet tomorrow. According to the agency's Center for ...
New Horizon's flyby of Arrokoth reveals a pristine object untouched since the solar system's origin. Its shape and geology show that planetesimals form more ...
On January 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Arrokoth -- provisional designation 2014 MU69, previously ...
We tend to view the bodies of the Solar System as creations of gravity, which pulled their parts together and holds them in place as they orbit. But as we saw with ...
Isn't this cool? Scientists at the famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico made this rare find just days after resuming post-earthquake operations. It's a moon ...
Another asteroid is apparently on its way towards Earth as space agency NASA's asteroid trackers have caught sight of the rock. A new report reveals how fast ...
NASA is currently monitoring two asteroids that are expected to approach Earth tomorrow. One of the approaching asteroids is almost as big as a pyramid and ...
Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms ...
You begin to wake up from stasis as your lander descends to Pluto's surface. You strain to locate the Sun in the sky as you peek out the window; you finally spot ...
From the time that dinosaur fossils were first discovered, these creatures have fascinated scientists and laypeople alike. In the academic world, their remains ...
It's no secret that planet Earth is occasionally greeted by rocks from space that either explode in out atmosphere or impact on the surface. In addition, our planet ...
Even though it was, in most ways, identical to the present planet, the Earth still looked very different at the bottom of the last ice age 20,000 years ago. The globe ...
This week turned out to be a surprisingly busy one in space news – kicked off by the Trump administration's FY 2021 budget proposal, which was generous to ...
Well, it all comes down to this. NASA has given SpaceX the thumbs up to become the first company in its Commercial Crew program to send humans into space.
For the travelers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was docked in Japan and briefly became a coronavirus nightmare scenario for those on board, ...
As power plants and energy stores, mitochondria are essential components of almost all cells in plants, fungi and animals. Until now, it has been assumed that ...
Imagine a dancer en pointe, spinning on her own axis while dancing on a rotating carousel. She might injure herself when both rotations add up and the angular ...
New clues were recently uncovered in a decades-old cold case surrounding a set of dinosaur prints in the ceiling of a cave. The prints belonged to what was.
The mystery of dinosaur footprints on the roof of a Queensland cave has been solved after a discovery in a cupboard under the stairs of a suburban Sydney ...
Labs around the world are racing to develop new computing and sensing devices that operate on the principles of quantum mechanics and could offer dramatic ...
A new study suggests a path to correcting the “jitters” in quantum devices, which may help make quantum computers and sensors more practical. Labs around ...
Scientists have taken a major step toward a circular carbon economy by developing a long-lasting, economical catalyst that recycles greenhouse gases into ...
"Moon dust" could be a vital source of fuel, building material and even drinking water for astronauts, according to the Open University. Researchers in Milton ...
The aye-aye is one of nature's most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique ...
Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed a photometric study of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4546. Results of the new research provide ...
What would have been SpaceX's 50th successful Falcon booster landing was foiled on Monday, after the booster missed its touchdown point in the Atlantic ...
A new bunch of satellites has successfully been sent out by SpaceX's Falcon 9, though unfortunately misses the landing and losing it at sea after. Watch an ...
There is a stage, in the course of opening up a new field of astronomical discoveries, when you're just trying to collect information as much as you can.
The European Space Agency is working with the Medes clinic in France to study the impact of 'dry-immersion' baths on the female body over a period of five ...
You can now get paid for the pleasure of lying in the bath for a week as the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for people to take part in a new study.
A peculiar movement of gas clouds close to the center of our galaxy may finally provide concrete evidence for a mysterious form of black hole whose very ...
Scientists have detected gas movements in the middle of our galaxy, which could be a sign of the most elusive species of black holes, a new study suggests.
Photos of Queensland's Fireclay Caverns gravity-defying dinosaur prints have been baffling onlookers since 1952, but a chance encounter has solved a puzzle ...
The field of synthetic biology does not only observe and describe processes of life but also mimics them. A key characteristic of life is the ability for replication, ...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed the central part of a spiral galaxy called NGC 4689. This Hubble image shows ...
A type of cancer that still afflicts humans has been found in a dinosaur fossil that was unearthed in Canada, according to experts. The fossil, which was found...
The day after she submitted a grant proposal last November, Sarah McNaughton listed all the tactics she could think of to boost her chances of success next time ...
architecture firm HASSELL has revealed plans for a new permanent structure to be built at the jodrell bank observatory in northwest england. 'first light pavilion' ...
