NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that ...
A fireball that streaked across the sky in the US state of Alabama on Friday has been confirmed by NASA as an asteroid that was "at least 40 times as bright as ...
Methane released by thawing permafrost from some Arctic lakes could significantly accelerate climate change, according to a new University of Alaska ...
Scientists have shown that water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) which are between two to four times the size ...
Exoplanets which are between two to four times the size of Earth are likely to have vast amounts of water, according to a study that may have implications for the ...
Washington: Water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets which are between two to four times the size of Earth, suggests new research that may ...
HOPES of finding life in space rose yesterday after an international team of scientists claimed there are many water worlds in our galaxy. The American Harvard ...
About 35% of all known exoplanets which are bigger than Earth should be water-rich. These water worlds likely formed in similar ways to the giant planet cores ...
Space is hot. Thanks to new rockets built by the private sector and the remarkable discovery of evidence of water on Mars, space flight and exploration are ...
We all might be anxiously awaiting the eventual launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope — which has been stuck in an endless series of delays thanks ...
Construction crews have officially begun work on the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, a revolutionary infrared telescope that will scour the cosmos with ...
The construction of a gigantic new telescope has kicked into high gear in the Chilean Andes. The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) has now entered the ...
The European Space Agency has done it again. It has scooped NASA with a new discovery: a subglacial lake on Mars, with potentially billions of gallons of ...
Mars is one of the smaller planets in the solar system, with its diameter measuring around 6,700km at the equator. The distance of Mars from earth varies ...
The remains of a 99-million-year old beetle have been discovered, perfectly preserved in amber, fossilized resin that originates from the bark of a tree.
Scientists have discovered a beetle trapped in amber that dates back to 99 million years, a finding that may help better understand the relationship between ...
Cycads, a type of seed plant with evergreen leaves and a woody trunk, are highly present in the fossil record, which reveals that they were once more abundant.
CYCADS look the part of foliage on a “Jurassic Park” film set for a reason. The plants are indeed very ancient. They evolved during the Permian period, millions ...
Physicists have discovered that some of the faintest satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy are amongst the very first that formed in our Universe.
In a sense, this is the most unusual place in the universe that we've ever seen” says an astronomer at UC Riverside that found that a murky void in space 500 ...
Curiosity photographed an odd, flat object that mission team members initially thought might have fallen off the car-size robot. But the "debris" turned out to be a ...
It wasn't aliens or sever temperatures that shut down NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover, but rather a huge dust storm. The rover continues to sleep due to the dust ...
A stunning new video from NASA takes viewers on a tour of the moon in honor of the space agency's 60th anniversary and the 49th anniversary of the Apollo ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. >> The birthplace of NASA's rockets lies in the land of cotton, hundreds of miles from Cape Canaveral's launch pads. From the first U.S. ...
The massive cylindrical habitat will allow space explorers to live and work on the moon, Mars and beyond. A massive cylindrical habitat that will allow humans to ...
Lockheed Martin gave a first look at their living quarters prototype at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Thursday. The capsule is approximately 15 feet ...
When it comes to heat in our Solar System, Mercury takes the top crown, at least as far as planets are concerned. You wouldn't last more than a few seconds on ...
In the course of discovering planets beyond our Solar System, astronomers have found some truly interesting customers! In addition to “Super-Jupiters” ...
Scientists find vaporized iron and titanium in the atmosphere of Kelt-9b, an exoplanet in the constellation Cygnus that is the hottest ever discovered.
As of 12pm EDT on August 16, the Parker Solar Probe was 4.6 million kms from Earth, travelling at 62764 kms per hour, and heading toward its first Venus flyby.
NASA is on the verge of reaching where no one has ever gone before. The Sun! Yes, that's right, NASA will soon be launching its Parker Solar Probe on a ...
What the hell is going on up in there in space? Just as I was beginning to accept the fact that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, I find out that Earth has more than one ...
Ian Carnelli leads a team at the European Space Agency dedicated to asteroid defence – come learn about his mission this September at New Scientist Live.
Two missions to bring back space rocks will provide clues about the origins of the solar system and the threat of a doomsday collision with Earth.
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Elliptical orbits of bismuth surface electrons in a large magnetic field. The orientation and interference patterns of the electronic states reveal that the electrons prefer to occupy a single valley. Image created using a theoretical model of the data. Credit: Ali Yazdani Laboratory, Princeton University
A Princeton-led study has revealed an emergent electronic behavior on the surface of bismuth crystals that could lead to insights on the growing area of ...
Researchers have made a finding that could help usher in new area of technology called 'valleytronics.' The study found that electrons in bismuth crystals prefer ...
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC. (WSET) -- A couple didn't find the typical seashell or sea glass at a North Carolina beach.According to WECT, Sydney Williams ...
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (WSET) - A couple didn't find the typical seashell or sea glass on a North Carolina beach.According to WECT, Sydney Williams ...
The tooth belongs to a megalodon and was found by a NC couple while strolling on the beach. A North Carolina couple strolling on Wrightsville Beach earlier ...
While a global dust storm still covers most of the Red Planet's surface, NASA is having a little fun while collecting data and making images of its polar region.
Recent pictures of Mars revealed a familiar face hidden in the rocks, despite the dust storm that's been covering much of the planet. On Monday, NASA released ...
NASA has been poking around the dust and rock on Mars for some time now, and as far as we know there's nothing to indicate that any living organisms ...
Astronomers were just looking through photographs received from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Monday, when they noticed something slightly out ...
Sending missions to Mars for a living sounds like a dream job. But not every day can be launch day - so what do Nasa's spacecraft engineers get up to the rest of ...
Just two weeks after the announcement of the NASA astronauts who will fly the company's DM-2 and Crew-1 flights, SpaceX has provided more information and ...
SpaceX's manned launches are taking one step closer to reality. New images published this week shows how Elon Musk's space-faring firm is preparing to send ...
The access arm astronauts will transit when boarding SpaceX's Crew Dragon commercial capsule has arrived at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center ...
Meet NASA's next astronauts. They'll be riding on new spacecraft made by Boeing and Elon Musk's SpaceX. But first, the two companies have to prove that the ...
Dr. Michael McDonald of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and co-authors have uncovered a new massive cluster of galaxies hiding in ...
MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light years from Earth, is made up of ...
New research shows a black hole-fuelled quasar shining 46 billion times brighter than the Sun is not the lone wolf astronomers once believed. Massachusetts ...
Dr. Michael McDonald of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and co-authors have uncovered a new massive cluster of galaxies hiding in ...
SpaceX's manned launches are taking one step closer to reality. New images published this week shows how Elon Musk's space-faring firm is preparing to send ...
Boeing recently gave journalists a behind-the-scenes look at the company's new Starliner capsule, which could start carrying astronauts to and from the ...
Prior to the age of space exploration, the red planet was deemed to almost be like another earth, with telescope observations showing surface features that ...
In any field, the giants cast the heaviest shadows. And Jupiter and Saturn really have a huge footprint: Astronomers studying our solar system are fixated with ...
Striking shots of the Milky Way under a thunderstorm, snow reflecting the northern lights, and the International Space Station flying between sun spots are ...
A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered jets of warm water ...
The ALMA telescope in Chile has transformed how we see the universe, showing us otherwise invisible parts of the cosmos. This array of incredibly precise ...
Scientific publications are making a case for researching psychedelic drugs like LSD, peyote cactus, and mushrooms. Until recently, psychedelics' potential ...
Psychedelic science is making a comeback. Scientific publications, therapeutic breakthroughs and cultural endorsements suggest that the historical reputation of ...
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