We discovered a new rock type containing garnet inside a meteorite fragment from Mars
On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in jewellery since the…
The record-breaking journey that made astronaut Christina Koch a GWR ICON
Christina took up new challenges during her travels. Already an experienced rock climber, she took up ice climbing…
Rakuten to offer satellite-to-cell service in Japan with US startup
Telecommunication AST SpaceMobile tie-up comes as rivals offer similar service using SpaceX’s Starlink Rakuten Group CEO Mikitani answers…
Did Gravitational Tides Cause Earth’s Extinctions?
Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope reaches Kennedy eight months ahead of schedule, with a Falcon Heavy launch now set for Aug. 30
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 21,…
NASA Names Sean Gallagher as Chief Information Officer
NASA has selected Sean Gallagher as the agency’s chief information officer (CIO). In this role, he is responsible…
World’s Oldest Known Asteroid Crater Is 3 Billion Years Old, Study Confirms : ScienceAlert
When scientists disagree, sometimes the truth is somewhere in the middle. That has turned out to be true…
Leeds University students appeal for help finding lost rocket
For nine months, a group of engineering students worked building a rocket which they hoped to send 50,000ft…
ESA Details Next Steps for Agency’s Gateway Contributions
Credit: Thales Alenia Space/Briot The European Space Agency (ESA) has made initial decisions on the future of its…
Space.com just launched an app! Get your inside scoop on space exploration
Hey, space fans! For over 25 years, we here at Space.com have dedicated ourselves to bringing you the…
CSDA Selects Eight Commercial Satellite Data Providers for On-Ramp 2 Contract Awards
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced contract awards with eight commercial satellite data providers offering a…
A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the future than almost any other human being in history — across six spaceflights and 803 cumulative days at orbital velocity, Einstein’s theory of special relativity has made him approximately 0.02 seconds younger than other people his age
Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and…