AN ASTEROID the size of a skyscraper is set to skim past the earth on Halloween – but the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA), which is being tracked by ...
If you'd looked up into the sky in Kyoto, Japan on April 28, 2017, you might have seen a fireball spun off of a giant asteroid that might one day, far down the road, ...
Asteroid 1998 HL1, the biggest space rock, will dangerously approach Earth on October 25, 2019. Asteroid 1998 HL1 is classified as “Potentially Hazardous ...
Friday morning at the right time you may have looked up and above us all astronomical history was made when astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ...
Fifty-six years after the first woman went into space (and 56 years to the day after the first cat did so, but that's another story), two remarkable Americans Friday ...
Qantas confirmed in a statement that it's completed a test for the world's longest flight, with its plane landing at Sydney Airport after flying for 19 hours 16 minutes ...
Donald Trump contacted the International Space Station (ISS) to congratulate Jessica Meir and Christina Koch who, as part of NASA's Expedition 61 Flight, ...
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir exited the International Space Station on Friday, the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that a woman ...
A Jacksonville native is part of the first ever female spacewalk this morning. NASA Astronaut Christina Koch from Jacksonville, who is seven months into her ...
Two NASA astronauts will take part in the first all-female spacewalk Friday, a critical outing to restore lost power in the wake of an equipment failure that cropped ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is moving up the first all-female spacewalk to this week because of a power system failure at the International Space ...
The Ridgecrest earthquake in July was the strongest to strike southern California in 20 years. The main quake, compounded with more than 100000 aftershocks, ...
CALIFORNIA is one of the most earthquake-prone states in the USA, with thousands of earthquakes every year, and within it the potential for a 'Big One'.
After a 500-year slumber, the lesser-known Garlock Fault, near the infamous San Andreas Fault, is showing “unprecedented” movement after a series of ...
After the biggest earthquake to hit Southern California in 20 years struck in July, a powerful fault line that could cause a magnitude 8 earthquake began moving, ...
The Orionid meteor shower is considered to be the best meteor shower of the fall season and among the best ones of the entire year. And experts are hoping the ...
Will you be alive in 2061? If not, your only chance to see something of Halley's Comet comes in both early May and late October each year when Earth moves ...
NASA brought a smile to faces of Boeing shareholders this week with the announcement that it would be ordering 10 Space Launch System (SLS) core stages ...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia is expected to present a segment of a lunar-orbiting space station for landing on the ...
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Former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin says life was found on Mars in the 1970s. He worked on the Labeled Release experiment for the Viking lander mission.
In this time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 4, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, bunny-suited engineers remove the inner layer of ...
STEP into Moving to Mars, an exhibition of Mars mission and colony design at London's Design Museum, and you are confronted, immediately, with some very ...
Black scientists more often seek grants for community health studies, but molecular-level research proposals win more funding. More diversity throughout the ...
Earth-like exoplanets may be quite common in the universe, a new UCLA study suggests. Scientists led by Alexandra Doyle, a University of California, Los ...
Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new UCLA study implies. The team of astrophysicists and geochemists presents new evidence that the ...
Spectroscopic observations of six white dwarfs allowed a team of astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles and MIT to measure the constituent ...
NASA's asteroid tracking system has detected three space rocks that are currently hurtling towards Earth. One of the incoming space rocks will approach Earth ...
A SCIENTIST has warned that an asteroid striking the Atlantic Ocean could “wreak havoc” by sending huge ripples of waves “devastating surrounding coastal ...
NASA data show the biggest of the asteroids will be up to 328 feet across - about the height of Big Ben in London or the Statue of Liberty - while the smallest will ...
The International Space Station is a habitable satellite currently soaring around the Earth at 27600 kph (17100 mph), at an altitude of just over 400 km (250 ...
SpaceX's constellation of Starlink internet satellites may be expanding beyond the 60 the company launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, ...
The European spacecraft that aims to take the closest ever pictures of the Sun is built and ready for launch. The Solar Orbiter, or SolO, probe will put itself inside ...
PARIS: The Paris zoo's latest attraction is a brainless, eyeless, single-celled organism with no limbs or stomach but more than 700 genders. Meet the “blob” ...
A Florida State University researcher has uncovered a new geophysical phenomenon where a hurricane or other strong storm can spark seismic events in the ...
Hurricanes are one thing. Earthquakes are another. But these hazardous events aren't mutually exclusive, and sometimes one can even feed the other. In a new ...
If you heard the term "stormquakes," you might think it's a spin-off series based on Sharknado. Unfortunately, it's far scarier than any cyclone filled with great ...
Powerful hurricanes can whip the ocean into a frenzy — and that wave energy can be strong enough to hammer the seafloor, producing a novel kind of quake.
In recent years, cosmologists peering back to the very dawn of our Universe have discovered something peculiar. A whole bunch of supermassive black holes ...
Artist impression of the heart of galaxy NGC 1068, which harbors an actively feeding supermassive black hole, hidden within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of ...
During Friday's historic all-woman spacewalk from the International Space Station, a female voice can be heard speaking to astronauts Jessica Meir and ...
Astronomers in Poland have just published the 1st peer-reviewed paper on the 2nd interstellar visitor, now officially labeled as a comet, 2I/Borisov. Plus check ...
For a fiery phenomenon we most commonly associate with magma-spewing mountaintops, it's easy to forget that some 70 percent of all Earth's volcanism takes ...
Given that Earth harbors an abundance of life, the findings offer the latest tantalizing evidence that planets similarly capable of hosting life exist in large numbers ...
In the search for Earth-like worlds among the stars, much of the focus has been on finding planets in the habitable zone of a star, where they are the right ...
NASA rules that govern the potential spread of earthly microbes to other planets—and the potential return of alien life back to Earth—are often anachronistic and ...
NASA released a report Friday with recommendations from the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) the agency established in response to ...
NASA released a report Friday with recommendations from the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) the agency established in response to ...
Hubble has captured an image of the comet which is believed to have traveled to our solar system from a different planetary system somewhere else in the ...
Scientists have shown that delta waves emitted while we sleep are not generalized periods of silence during which the cortex rests, as has been described for ...
A team of researchers from the U.S., Italy and France has found evidence that suggests DNA inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans may have helped ...
Scientists have created molecular cages within a polymer to trap harmful sulphur dioxide pollution in order to transform it into useful compounds and reduce ...
The human eye can process light wavelengths in the range of 380 to 740 nanometers. However, there's a whole swath of “light” that we are unable to see.
The NASA Space App Challange 2019 is an open innovation and incubation program. The main objective of this program is to publicly share data in order to ...
A serious celestial show is coming! On the night of Monday, Oct. 21, continuing into the early morning hours of Tuesday, Oct. 22, stargazers get a chance to ...
Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, ...
It won't be long before we see the first woman on Mars, and she just might beat the first man there, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Friday (Oct. 18).
The evolution of dietary and hygienic habits in Western countries is associated with a decrease in the bacteria that help in digestion. These very bacteria were ...
The intestinal microbiome is a delicate ecosystem made up of billions and billions of microorganisms, bacteria in particular, that support our immune system, ...
In the dark depths of the ocean, pretty much the only sources of light are the animals that live there. Whether flashing, glimmering, or emitting glowing liquids, ...
In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 4380 looks like a special effect straight out of a science fiction or fantasy film, swirling like a ...
Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov is one step closer to creating CRISPR babies. On Friday, the journal Nature reported that Rebrikov claimed in an email sent ...
In mice, nicotine seems to mess with the signalling pathway that links the brain to the pancreas. Plus: a second scientist has moved closer to creating ...
A flexible lithium-ion battery designed by a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and built to operate under extreme ...
Wind energy is increasingly seen as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, as it contributes to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It is estimated that by ...
Wind energy is increasingly seen as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, as it contributes to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It is estimated that by ...
NASA's InSight lander is doing some great work on Mars. It's been listening closely for rumblings from inside the planet and even provides timely weather reports ...
Using the European Synchrotron, a team of physicists have identified a new stable form of plutonium. The newly discovered compound exists in a solid state and ...
For over a century, proponents of Panspermia have argued that life is distributed throughout our galaxy by comets, asteroids, space dust, and planetoids.
It was previously believed that life could only move from one planet to another within a solar system. But then Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object, was ...
