NASA's Ingenuity helicopter nailed its fifth scheduled flight on Mars on Friday and completed its initial objectives. It will now embark on a new mission on the ...
The Perseverance rover recorded audio of the Ingenuity helicopter in action on Mars, making it the first spacecraft to record the sounds of another spacecraft.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed its fifth flight on the Red Planet today with its first one-way journey from Wright Brothers Field to an airfield 423 feet ...
NASA and Boeing recently completed an integrated mission dress rehearsal of Starliner's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International ...
It's the dream of so many children to become an astronaut — to break free of gravity, float above the Earth and travel the cosmos. For many, this dream fades by ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's new administrator is big on tackling climate and diversifying the agency's workforce, but hedging on whether the U.S. ...
A huge section of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket is falling back to Earth and debris may land sometime Saturday evening or later — if the rocket doesn't burn ...
Latest update, 12:36 a.m.: The rocket has reentered Earth's atmosphere and fell into the Indian ocean north of the Maldives at latitude 22.2, longitude 50.0, ...
China Satellite Network Group is Beijing's latest effort to launch a constellation of satellites to beam internet signals from space, but experts say there is a lot of ...
Weather permitting, residents of the Eastern U.S. and Bermuda may be able to see a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launch from Virginia's Wallops Flight ...
Many reported seeing a string of lights in the sky this evening. This was not the rocket from China and also not the Wallops rocket scheduled for this weekend.
Saturday's scheduled NASA rocket launch has been postponed to no earlier than 8:03 p.m., Sunday, May 9. The launch was postponed due to upper level winds ...
A mission to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launching May 8 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia may ...
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SpaceX launched its latest Starship prototype Wednesday evening, sending the methane-fueled rocket up to an altitude of about 6 miles. The craft then flipped ...
SpaceX launched and successfully landed for the first time a prototype of its Starship rocket, which the company intends to use to send people and cargo to ...
If your weather is clear this weekend, step outside and stare upward anytime from one to two hours after sundown. If you're fortunate to be located well away ...
This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon's far side. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from ...
A radio telescope built by robots in a crater on the far side of the moon could reveal the mysteries surrounding the beginning of the universe. The mission is a ...
Inspiration4 will be the world's first spaceflight unsupervised by professional astronauts, using commercial equipment to launch civilian space enthusiasts into ...
SpaceX safely returned four astronauts Sunday from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, ...
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers ...
Recent developments at the forefront of astronomy allow us to observe that planets orbiting other stars have weather. Indeed, we have known that other planets ...
SpaceX is *fresh* off a high for its Starship spacecraft development program, but according to CEO Elon Musk, it's already looking ahead to potentially repeating ...
A couple of days ago, SpaceX hit a milestone with its Starship SN15 prototype rocket that had a test flight that ended in a successful landing without an.
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HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) – Just a few days after Starship Serial Number 15 (SN15) successfully launched and landed at the SpaceX Boca Chica facility, ...
A small desert-dwelling theropod dinosaur named Shuvuuia had excellent night vision, and its hearing was comparable to that of an owl. Like many owls, it was ...
Shuvuuia deserti, a species of alvarezsauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia, had extreme low-light vision and ...
Today's 10000 species of birds live in virtually every habitat on Earth, but only a handful have adaptations enabling them to hunt active prey in the dark of night.
Under the cover of darkness in desert habitats about 70 million years ago, in what is today Mongolia and northern China, a gangly looking dinosaur employed ...
Dinosaur fossils found around the world have piqued curiosity and more questions about their lives. To understand these iconic extinct animals, scientists have ...
New observations reveal that Mars could still be volcanically active, raising the possibility for habitable conditions below the surface of Mars in recent history.
The team said images taken by Mars satellites show evidence of eruptions in the past 50000 years, in the Elysium Planitia region, about 1000 miles from NASA's ...
They may be tiny weapons, but Brigham Young University's holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers—green for Yoda and red for ...
A tiny, meat-eating dinosaur had superb low-light vision and hearing that was likely as good as an owl's. And like an owl, the wee dinosaur probably used those ...
A new study has revealed that a tiny, carnivorous dinosaur, which had an exceptional low-light vision and whose hearing ability was as good as an owl's, hunted ...
Fossils of Shuvuuia deserti depict a small predatory creature with exceptional night vision and hearing. Image: Mick Ellison/American Natural History Museum, ...
Scientists on Thursday said than an examination of the skeleton of a small bird-like dinosaur revealed that it had excellent night vision and hearing ability, ...
The Long March 5B rocket is falling back to Earth after launching part of China's next space station. The 30-meter long rocket entered orbital velocity, meaning it ...
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions—one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the ...
A star wrapped around a supermassive black hole has been observed for the first time, providing evidence that an effect dubbed spaghettification takes place ...
Exeter scientists have discovered a simple, efficient way to recreate the early structure of the human embryo from stem cells in the laboratory. The new approach ...
A special night sky event is coming this month when we have a total lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse happens when Earth passes between a full moon and the ...
The "super blood moon" or "flower" supermoon on May 26 will be the second of 2021's supermoons, following a "super pink moon" visible at the end of April.
The Moon will be "blood,” "super" and eclipsed on May 26. Unfortunately, the main phase of the eclipse will be starting around 2:45 a.m. PDT, when the dark ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is continuing to shed light on Venus despite its focus on the Sun. According to Futurism, the spacecraft detected a natural radio ...
These fallacies give a false sense of confidence about how close we are to achieving artificial general intelligence, and what this tech can do for us.
The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to finally launch this fall. The 21-foot-diameter infrared telescope, which will observe astronomical objects in ...
SCIENTISTS from the University of Bangor have unveiled a radical plan to fight climate change by refreezing the North Pole. How will they do it? By harnessing ...
It is hoped the ice-making machine will replenish polar ice caps. It will pump water up from under the ice cap to the surface, creating new layers of the sea ice.
