Psyche spacecraft rehearses asteroid science at Mars
Mars was a rehearsal, not a destination. Here is what a spacecraft built for a metal asteroid came…
Fish Skin Doesn’t Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It : ScienceAlert
A glittering school of silverside fish may remind you of a disco ball, a dazzling display made up…
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from…
Japan’s monkey sensation Punch gets thousands of birthday messages as he turns 1 on Sunday
ICHIKAWA, Japan — Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by clinging…
Rare, well-preserved snake fossil offers new insight into millions of years of evolution
As the West continues to feel the heat, some animals are pushing into human residences for resources. Dr.…
SpaceX Starship hits key milestones in Flight 13
SpaceX says the Starship flying today’s mission has 20 Starlink satellites on board, the first of the latest…
NASA is preparing astronauts for Mars’ dusty hazards :: WRAL.com
One of the most memorable scenes in The Martian (2015) comes just minutes into the film, when a violent…
We tend to imagine the habitable zone as a narrow ring around a star, but icy moons have transformed that picture. Far beyond the reach of life-sustaining sunlight, vast oceans may remain liquid beneath their frozen surfaces—warmed by the constant gravitational flexing of the giant planets they orbit.
The picture most of us were given at school was wonderfully simple. Put a star in the middle,…
World’s First Room-Temperature Quantum Material Sorts Light in an Unprecedented Way
A new Nature study establishes a blueprint for engineering future quantum materials that operate under everyday conditions. Credit:…
Former newsreader and big cat conservationist Gillian van Houten dies
Gillian van Houten, one of South Africa’s most recognisable news presenters and a former SABC newsreader during the…
The Physical Mechanics of Memory Erasure
Summary: A new study demonstrates that non-Brownian suspensions can form, retain, and overwrite multiple microscopic memories simultaneously, offering…
This Week In Space LIVE — The Viking Mars landings 50 years later
This Week in Space 220 – YouTube Watch On Hey, Space Fans! Every weekend here at Space.com, you…