Duke anthropologist Brian Hare argues that humans evolved in a way that left us more cooperative and friendlier than our now extinct human cousins, like ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 ...
NASA and its global partners are preparing to celebrate 20 years of continuous human habitation in space following the first night's stay aboard the International ...
Only the two Voyager spacecraft have ever been there, and it took than more than 30 years of supersonic travel. It lies well past the orbit of Pluto, through the ...
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The Crew Dragon's next launch has been delayed. It is just the latest in a series of delays in SpaceX and NASA's plan to send crewed missions to the ISS.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, the only American not on the planet, said the experience of voting in space is special. “It's an honor for us,” she said in response to ...
The Space Force plans to swear-in NASA Astronaut and Air Force Col. Michael S. Hopkins while he's aboard the International Space Station as part of the ...
The next step in our journey to know the cosmos will take place in Kourou, French Guiana exactly one year today. On October 31, 2021—a Sunday—NASA, the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope caught two galaxies in the act of colliding. Their orange color earned them the nickname "Greater Pumpkin." NASA, ESA, and W.
Sorry Charlie Brown, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as the “Greater Pumpkin,” that looks like a Halloween ...
Earth has a molten metal core that us humans are unable to access and study directly. But there's a giant asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter that ...
A giant metallic asteroid worth approximately $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 -- more than the entire Earth's economy -- is orbiting around Mars and Jupiter, ...
Somewhere between Mars and Jupiter is a potato-shaped space rock possibly worth way more than the entire economy of Earth. Italian astronomer Annibale de ...
An asteroid that could be worth more than Earth's entire economy is the subject of a new study, as NASA prepares to send a spacecraft there, according to USA ...
Researchers say new information gathered on the asteroid 16 Psyche - a 140-mile-long minor planet situated within the main asteroid belt orbiting between ...
With all the nasty things happening on our home world, we kind of lost track of an extraordinary mission taking place in space, more than 205 million miles (330 ...
Despite fears a leaky collection head would lose its asteroid sample, mission managers estimated Thursday the Osiris Rex spacecraft will bring about a kilogram ...
By studying impact marks on the surface of asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission—a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona ...
MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. The issue of the US intention to extract mineral resources on the Moon will be discussed at the 75th session of the UN General ...
NASA Water on the Moon Discovery: Previously, water was thought to be limited to cold, shadowed places. Now, SOFIA has detected water molecules in a crater ...
While there have been signs of water being present on the moon, NASA's new findings suggest the lunar water isn't just restricted to shadowy areas of Earth's ...
Mount St. Helens, Vesuvius, Krakatoa: history is full of volcanic eruptions that took humans by surprise and caused devastating damage. But with the help of ...
Specially-adapted drones developed by a UCL-led international team have been gathering data from never-before-explored volcanoes that will enable local ...
People living in the shadow of deadly volcanoes have been given a source of hope with a drone that warns of impending eruptions.British researchers have built ...
NASA wants to take your Halloween celebration out of this world. The space agency has released a playlist of sinister space sounds, which it describes as ...
Vintage horror film adverts highlight cosmic frights in the latest artwork from NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...
Scientists have discovered a lonely orphaned planet wandering through the Milky Way with no parent star to guide it — a "rogue" planet, stuck in endless ...
Somewhere out there in the midst of the Milky Way is an Earth-sized planet, floating aimlessly through space. The 'rogue planet' belongs to no solar system, nor ...
Scientists have discovered another rogue planet, but even this one has experts perplexed: it's slightly smaller than Earth and is floating through the Milky Way.
Effie: An international team of scientists has discovered a planet the size of Earth in the Milky Way galaxy, and it is not linked in terms of gravity to a specific star, ...
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 species of coral, along with dozens of other species. But since 1995, it's lost ...
Scientists have found a towering coral reef off the northern tip of Australia, the first discovery of its kind in 120 years, BBC News reports. At 500 meters tall, the ...
Analysis of a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert reveals the existence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago, scientists report. The mineral composition of ...
Despite the abundant geomorphological evidence for surface liquid water on Mars during the Noachian epoch (>3.7 billion years ago), attaining a warm climate ...
The mineral composition of Martian meteorite NWA 7533, found in 2012, reveals chemical signatures of oxidation - which would have occurred as water formed.
As NASA moves towards the SLS's first flight, putting the Orion spacecraft in orbit around the moon, there are concerns not with the rocket's engines but rather ...
As we watch SpaceX begin a *fresh* exploration into the mystery beyond, it's a wonder to learn of just how much the race to space has given birth to the gadgets ...
A joint research team from China, Germany and Australia has now reported their findings of Denisovan DNA from sediments of the Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) ...
New studies published in "Science" add to our ever-growing understanding of how Denisovans once lived and how their DNA continues to influence humankind ...
The ancient Denisovan mitochondrial DNA was recovered in sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave, a limestone cave at the northeast margin of the Tibetan ...
Gravitational waves are distortions in spacetime caused by super violent cosmic events. Something so cataclysmic may seem like it would be hard to miss, but in ...
Scientists who study black holes and their impact on the universe are making strides in their research at Louisiana's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...
An international research collaboration including Northwestern University astronomers has produced the most detailed family portrait of black holes to date, ...
For decades, astronomers have speculated that there may be water on the Moon. In recent years, this speculation was confirmed one orbiting satellite after ...
Mankind is officially “one small step” closer to sustaining life on the moon long-term. Science has found two sources of water on the moon outside of its frigid ...
A powerful gene-editing tool called Crispr-Cas9, which this month nabbed the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for two female scientists, can cause serious side effects ...
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how ...
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in our solar system that has a thick atmosphere. Now, scientists have discovered a molecule in it that has never ...
Using high sensitivity spectroscopic observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected a small cyclic ...
K/Pg, or Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, refers to the aftermath of the asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Credit: Odysseus Archontikis/University ...
At first glance, a pack of wolves has little to do with a vinaigrette. However, a team led by Ramin Golestanian, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics ...
We've long been warned of the risks of dyeing hair at home and in salons. Products used can cause allergies and skin irritation—an estimated 1% of people ...
Researchers created new dyes that use synthetic melanin to mimic natural hair pigmentation. We've long been warned of the risks of dyeing hair at home and in ...
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole.Black holes – regions in space where ...
Australian bees are known for pollinating plants on beautiful sunny days, but a new study has identified two species that have adapted their vision for night-time ...
Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds, also known as the polar vortex, supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole ...
The Antarctic ozone hole on Sept. 20, 2020, when concentrations of the gas reached their lowest extent for the year. Purple and blue is where ozone is lowest.
Let's call it the Texas two-step, but for molecules. Rice University scientists have developed a method to reduce alkenes, molecules used to simplify synthesis, ...
Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it's estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our ...
Many of the fundamental principles in biology and essentially all pathways regulating development were identified in so-called genetics screens. Originally ...
Many of the fundamental principles in biology and essentially all pathways regulating development were identified in so-called genetics screens. Originally ...
The U.K. coronavirus outbreak is tracking a steeper trajectory than even the government's worst-case scenario, papers released on Friday showed, adding to ...
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California, Irvine have created fundamental electronic building ...
A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are ...
Small red dwarf stars, the most common in the Milky Way, may be more inhospitable than previously thought, thanks to periodic blasts of high-energy ultraviolet ...
In 48 years, an asteroid named after the Egyptian God of Chaos Apophis might hit the Earth. Apophis will pass particularly close to the Earth in 2068, Popular ...
The SNOBOX — the device designed to detect dark matter particles for the SuperCDMS experiment — will use nesting copper cans similar to this one, which ...
There are nearly one million catalogued asteroids, but we don't know much about many of them. Now Unistellar and its scientific partner, the SETI Institute, can ...
Ghosts and spirits are common sights on Earth the week of Halloween, but it turns out apparitions appear exist on other planets too. (No, we're not talking about ...
The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into asteroids' resurfacing ...
Fake social-media accounts are harder to detect than ever before. Plus: Philae's crash landing reveals the softness of comet 67P, and why schools probably ...
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Mars is covered in intriguing scars—some of the most prominent being impact craters. A particularly unusual example is shown in this new image from ESA's ...
The craters are located on the Red Planet's southern hemisphere, in an area called Noachis Terra. During the Noachian era this region was constantly hit by ...
Welcome to Edition 3.22 of the Rocket Report! After a spate of recent scrubs, the Cape gets down to business in the coming week with back-to-back government ...
One of six new spooky posters from NASA's Galaxy of Horrors. Credit NASA-JPL/Caltech. While ghouls and goblins may provide the ghastly delights many of us ...
On November 12, 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe deployed a lander to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It was supposed ...
In an effort to research how the center of the Milky Way Galaxy formed what is known as a “galactic bulge,” Scientists used a Dark Energy Camera to survey a ...
Space is a messy place. An estimated 34,000 pieces of junk over 10 cm in diameter are currently orbiting Earth at around 10 times the speed of a bullet. If one of ...
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When Canadarm2 was first launched to ISS onboard Shuttle Endeavour on 19 April 2001 and installed three days later by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield ...
A HUGE fireball was seen over the skies over northwestern USA and southwestern Canada, leading some to claim it is the biggest meteor they had ever seen.
Skies will be mainly clear on Saturday night (Oct. 31) across the contiguous United States, as costumed kids arrive at the door looking for candy or some other ...
Spiders are among the most successful animals that inhabit the Earth. There are about 40,000 known species of spiders, and they live everywhere from tropical ...
