What was the first vegetable to ever grow in space |
The quest to grow food beyond Earth has fascinated scientists and space agencies for decades, not only as…
New Hubble Image Brings Gigantic Star-Forming Cloud into Focus
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have released a beautiful new image of part of N159, a…
NASA discovers “clearest signs of life on Mars” ever found
NASA’s Perseverance Rover found claystones covered in markings nicknamed “leopard spots” and “poppy seeds”. (Image source: NASA) NASA’s…
China’s Shenzhou 20 debris crisis: a catalyst for space war – or peace?
A tiny piece of debris triggered the most serious mishap at China’s Tiangong space station since it became…
Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe
9 Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has…
NASA’s Perseverance rover finds possible interplanetary rock on Mars
The Perseverance rover of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered a strangely shaped rock on…
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Scientists discover little-explored planet that rains shards of glass
Space is full of weird but wonderful things, from unusual rocks on Mars that don’t actually belong there…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos — Colossal
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has come through yet again with an unprecedented image from our Solar System,…
NASA releases new high-res images of 3I/ATLAS after government shutdown delay
Around Oct. 30, the mysterious out-of-this-world 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point in the solar system, roughly 130 million…
NASA’s Perseverance rover spots unusual iron-nickel rock that could be a ‘visitor’ to Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered an unusual iron- and nickel-rich rock on Mars that scientists believe may be…
To save this space telescope, a rocket will be launched from a plane
Launched in 2004, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory‘s mission is to observe and study gamma-ray bursts from its…
Perseverance rover spots mysterious ‘visitor from outer space’ rock on Mars surface after 4 years
NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on…