Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known satellite in the solar system to feature an atmosphere, which…
NASA Is Testing A Rover That Can Drive Faster And Lift Its Wheels To Climb Obstacles
NASA’s Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in…
Milky Way fossil fragment reveals how our galaxy formed
The middle of the Milky Way is anything but quiet. Stars fill the region, dust clouds make observations…
Fireball led to ‘meteorite debris’ hitting the ground, expert says
A fireball seen in the Sault last night resulted in meteorites touching down on an island in Lake…
NASA’s Swift Boost Mission Will Launch Later This Month To Rescue A Falling Telescope
The Swift Boost rescue mission will soon head to space.
NASA/Ron Beard The NASA Swift Boost…
On 5 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 14 lander reached the surface of Venus, ejected the protective cap from its camera lens, photographed the surrounding terrain — and then lowered its mechanical soil-testing arm directly onto the discarded lens cap, returning a clean measurement of the compressibility of Soviet plastic instead of Venusian rock.
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long…
Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach | Texas
A Texas beach can be closed during rocket launches by Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the state’s supreme court…
The tallest volcano in the solar system is so wide that from most places on its slopes, you would never see a dramatic summit rising ahead of you — Olympus Mons is broader than some countries, and its gentle flanks curve away with Mars long before the mountain looks like a mountain at all.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest volcano in the solar system, rising about 22 kilometres above the…
SpaceX Starfall Demo Flies Tuesday: Disk Capsule Bets on Orbital Manufacturing Scale
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on Tuesday, June 23, in a low-profile demo that…
Sunday is the longest day of the year for half the planet. A guide to the summer solstice
This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern…
Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark matter clusters, new ‘echo map’ technique suggests
Astronomers have used a technique called echo mapping to detect hints that supermassive black holes, such as the…
The longest continuous spaceflight in history — 437 days aboard the Russian Mir space station, completed by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov in 1995 — was specifically conducted to prove that a human being could survive a round-trip mission to Mars, in a piece of human endurance that has been waiting unused on a shelf for three decades
The record sits at the top of every list of human spaceflight endurance achievements, has been there since…