Before the first major Artemis mission takes off, NASA needs to prove its huge rocket system is up to the task. That calls for a "Green Run" hot fire test.
The world will be watching the John C. Stennis Space in Mississippi, Saturday, for the final test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in the Artemis mission.
NASA's Curiosity rover marked 3000 Martian days, or "sols," on the Red Planet Tuesday (Jan. 12), a mere five weeks before NASA's Perseverance rover is ...
NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. Scientists in Germany spent two years ...
Today, NASA announced that it was giving up on its attempts to place a temperature sensor several meters under the Martian surface. Part of the agency's ...
NASA has been forced to end its mission to drill down into the Martian soil after its unique geology proved too much for the InSight lander. The InSight probe was ...
Many consider the various rovers we've sent to Mars as the next best thing to sending a geologist to the Red Planet. Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity have ...
"Game of Thrones" may have excited viewers with tales of dragons and fictional heroes and heroines, but one aspect of the show was real, according to a new ...
Dire wolves (Canis dirus) are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America, yet relatively little is known ...
Dire wolves have lunged into the public imagination through their enormous and fearsome fictional representation in Game of Thrones. Though the show ...
While NASA previously determined that there were around two trillion galaxies in the universe, new findings say the number is more likely hundreds of billions.
According to new observations from the New Horizons spacecraft, the number of galaxies in the universe is likely in the hundreds of billions, not trillions.
Our Milky Way galaxy is filled with streams of stars, but one of them appears to be a family that includes nearly 500 relatives, according to a new study.
In total there were 4400lb of scientific research and other cargo that splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the West Coast of Florida at 01:30 GMT this morning.
Boeing will support the International Space Station's growing research capabilities with new solar arrays to increase the orbiting laboratory's power supply. (Jan.
AAAS, which publishes the Science family of journals, announced today it will offer its authors a free way to comply with a mandate issued by some funders that ...
In 2021, the US Postal *Service* is showcasing the Sun's many faces with a series of Sun Science forever stamps that show images of solar activity captured by ...
Conditions around Kennedy Space Center should be favorable for SpaceX's scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink internet satellites early next ...
NASA astronaut Victor Glover is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with focusing on the development and training efforts for ...
–Naval Commander Victor Glover is on the International Space Station for six months. The 44-year-old astronaut arrived at the space station in November.
Sometime during the third century, a brilliant burst of light from the explosion of a massive star was visible from Earth. If the supernova blast had flashed over the ...
Remember the Hubble Deep Field? And its successor the Hubble Ultra Deep Field? We sure do here at Universe Today. How could we forget them? Well, just ...
A mission from NASA has discovered there may be a lot fewer galaxies than initially believed, opening up the possibility humanity is alone in the universe.
The SpaceX cargo ship "Dragon" sank a total of 12 bottles and 320 feet of flag from the well-known French region of Bordeaux at the International Space.
In the 17th-century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei looked out into the unknown vastness of space using his ingenious telescope, he saw the sun, the ...
The European Space Agency previews a big 2021 starting with a new boss. Data show last year's temperatures tied the hottest on record, and French wines ...
Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX to launch its NASA-backed IM-2 Polar Mission to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022, the company ...
As NASA increasingly relies on private industry for a return trip to the moon, SpaceX continues to benefit, this time winning contracts to launch a commercial ...
SpaceX just won two contracts to launch both a commercial lunar lander, a mission backed by NASA, as well as a satellite meant to monitor methane emissions.
The first commercial lunar landers are set to start making their trips to the moon as early as this year, and now another one has a confirmed ride booked: Intuitive ...
Engineering failures and a harsh climate conspired in the sudden collapse of the Arecibo telescope. Now, researchers are planning a rebirth. Embedded Image.
The most distant quasar and the earliest known supermassive black hole have been discovered, shedding light on how massive galaxies formed in the early ...
The newly-discovered quasar is located approximately 13.03 billion light-years away from Earth. Designated J031343.84-180636.4 (J0313-1806 for short), the ...
Extinct dire wolves, made famous in the TV show Game of Thrones, are only distant cousins of modern grey wolves, DNA analysis has found. New research ...
With each passing year, scientific research gets more sophisticated, which can sometimes bring with it new perspectives on previously held beliefs, even when it ...
The dire wolf, the mystical creature that menacingly roamed the “Game of Thrones” universe, has an equally enthralling biological backstory. The fierce creature ...
It turns out that planets can live a very long time indeed. Around one of the galaxy's oldest stars, an orange dwarf named TOI-561 just 280 light-years away, ...
Astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck I telescope at the W. M. Keck ...
A super-Earth planet 280 light-years away seems to be about 10 billion years old, adding to growing evidence that rocky planets have existed almost as long as ...
MIT biologists have found a possible explanation for the Warburg effect, first seen in cancer cells in the 1920s. They found cancer cells use fermentation, ...
A new study has revealed a big surprise about electric eels—they hunt in packs. Prior to the study published in Ecology and Evolution , scientists thought the ...
Electric eels appear to not be the loners we thought they were. In a small lake deep in the Amazon River basin in Brazil, scientists have for the first time recorded ...
By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, physicists produced an ultra-stable one-dimensional quantum gas with never-before-seen ...
As the story goes, the Greek mathematician and tinkerer Archimedes came across an invention while traveling through ancient Egypt that would later bear his ...
Physicists have observed a new state of matter at work inside an elusive thread of quantum gas. The gossamer-thin strings of gas capable of binding giants ...
Not all appears as it would seem in the Whirlpool galaxy. SOFIA's infrared view shows that the magnetic fields in the outer arms do not follow the galaxy's spiral ...
New research shows that magnetic fields are contributing to the expulsion of material from the Cigar galaxy, or Messier 82, a well-known example of a starburst ...
As galaxies evolve, they undergo several changes. One of the most significant is the cessation of star formation. Once a galaxy stops creating stars, it becomes ...
Even though galaxies are known to die out, scientists never could witness the process of a galaxy dying out, until now. Using a high tech telescope, scientists ...
Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest 3-D sky map yet, ...
Jan. 14, 2021 -- Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest 3D.
Data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys have revealed over 1200 new gravitational lenses, approximately doubling ...
Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have created the largest ever map of the sky, ...
Scientists have combined modern spacecraft data with vintage observations to piece together a 125-year-long story of the antics of a nearby triple-star system ...
A rapidly twirling, ultramagnetic 500-year-old infant has been spotted zipping at never-before-seen speeds through the Milky Way. It belongs to a super-rare ...
For decades, scientists have wrestled with a complex mystery of physics: Could the immense amounts of energy theoretically produced by rotating black holes ...
The upper stage of the Skyrora XL rocket successfully completed a crucial static fire test at the engine development complex in Fife Scotland just before ...
SPACEX is gearing up for the first high-altitude launch of the Starship SN9 prototype. After triple static fire test was completed on Wednesday, SpaceX fans hope ...
Gravitational-wave astronomy is still in its infancy. LIGO and other observatories have opened a new window on the universe, but their gravitational view of the ...
“Lattice surgery” has been used to quantum-mechanically entangle fault-tolerant topological qubits – an achievement that could lead to the production of more ...
