Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, we’re headed back to the moon
Humanity has likely dreamed of flight since the very beginning, marveling at birds soaring overhead and trying to…
Scientists have found a billion-year-old hidden magma system on Mars that supported life on the Red planet
Out of all the planets in the solar system, Earth is held at the highest prominence. It’s consistent…
Rocket Lab Announces a Massive $8 Billion Satellite Acquisition. Now What?
While the market remains largely focused on newly IPO’d Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), known as SpaceX, and…
NASA is looking for volunteers to live in a space simulator for a year
For the closest thing to spending a year on Mars, without leaving Earth, look no further than Houston. NASA…
NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with incredible views of space
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA has released four spectacular images of deep space…
Antarctica is missing 2 million sq km of sea ice, scientists say the impact may reach far beyond the frozen continent
Antarctica may feel far removed from everyday life, but new research suggests the icy continent could have a…
What did the night sky look like on the 1st Independence Day 250 years ago?
What did the evening sky look like for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries on July 4,…
Renowned neurobiologist and former taekwondo captain Chih-Ying Su leaves US for China
Celebrated neurobiologist Chih-Ying Su, who specialises in research on the sense of smell using fruit flies and mosquitoes,…
X-Ray Telescope Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday With Cosmic Fireworks
In celebration of the United States of America’s 250th birthday, NASA has unveiled four new images from its…
The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them
The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and…
Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved
This week’s science news was all about goings on in space, with reports that the James Webb Space…
Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself — Cassini-era estimates have placed their age anywhere from about 10 million to a few hundred million years, meaning the rings we see today may not have existed for most of the age of dinosaurs.
Saturn looks like the solar system’s old monument, a pale gas giant encircled by rings that seem as…