The Case of the Sun’s Missing Silver
There is something quietly reassuring about a scientific mystery that gets solved not by a dramatic new discovery,…
Shaping the Emerald City – NASA Science
Seattle, Washington—sometimes known as the “Emerald City”—was glimmering in the morning sunlight when an astronaut aboard the International…
India’s Skyroot launches first private orbital rocket mission
India’s Skyroot Aerospace orbital rocket Vikram-1 blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota…
Meteorite strike of New Jersey home reveals life clues
View larger. | Meteorite strike of New Jersey home! Here’s the space rock itself. It crashed through the…
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A PhD student in Sydney has produced cosmic dust from scratch by recreating a small piece of the…
When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents
Spirit’s right-front wheel stopped turning on 13 March 2006, more than two Earth years after the rover reached…
Elon Musk Says If SpaceX Accomplishes Its Goals, ‘It Will Be Worth More Than The Rest of Earth’ — Though He’s Also Said ‘Money Will Stop Being Relevant’
Image of CEO Elon Musk by Frederic Legrand – COMEO via Shutterstock Trying to predict Elon Musk’s vision…
Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater – CTV News
Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater CTV NewsGiant pit discovered by hiker on…
Cassini watched bright “islands” appear, disappear and reappear in Titan’s methane seas — and laboratory experiments suggest they may be fields of nitrogen bubbles fizzing out of solution as the alien lakes warm or mix
Cassini’s radar saw bright features appear within Titan’s dark northern seas, vanish on later passes and, in one…
Across Titan’s equator, winds have built dunes around 100 metres high and hundreds of kilometres long — but the grains are water ice coated in hydrocarbons that fell out of the moon’s orange atmosphere
Cassini’s radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan’s equatorial regions. Individual ridges are commonly one…
NASA Shares Beautiful Timelapse Of The Psyche Spacecraft’s View Over Mars
The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Uncovers Evidence of 4 Billion Year Old Impacts
NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the rim of the Jezero Crater, an impact basin in Mars’ northern…