We may have lost an Opportunity on Mars, but that isn’t holding Curiosity back. After hanging out at Vera Rubin Ridge on Mount Sharp since 2017, NASA’s Curiosity rover is crawling over the dusty terrain of the Red Planet again…
Forget violin concertos in G major – the performances of the future could take place in zero-G. Elon Musk, whose firm SpaceX is building a rocket that could transport up to 100 people in space…
These colonies would support all manner of ecosystems. Blue Origin wants to build the tools to help humanity explore the solar system, ultimately expanding life out to take advantage of more resources and support over…
WASP-76 b may be the most extreme exoplanet we know of. There’s a new contender for the “most exotic exoplanet” title. The crown may have rested for a while now on the head of HD 189733 b,…
All five remaining instruments on NASA’s venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft are back to gathering science data after power overuse in late January interrupted the probe’s operations. NASA made the announcement yesterday (March 3), over a month after the incident…
Jupiter appears to have more water than anyone expected. Newly released data from NASA’s Juno probe shows that water may make up about 0.25% of the molecules in the atmosphere over Jupiter’s equator. While that doesn’t sound like…
String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the constants, all the things under a single theoretical roof, where everything…
Liftoff is set for 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT). The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites to join its growing megaconstellation in orbit today (Feb .17) and you can watch the action live online. …
AN ASTEROID capable of causing global destruction if it hits will approach our planet tomorrow afternoon, the US space agency NASA has found. NASA’s automated asteroid tracking systems have their eyes on a potentially cataclysmic rock dubbed 163373 (2002…
The mysterious signal is repeating every 16 days. A Harvard researcher says it could be of “artificial origin.” Earlier this month, Canadian researchers announced they’d discovered a powerful radio signal, emanating from a distant galaxy in bursts…
In a world of fast fashion, upcycling clothes is a growing trend. If a tweet by the Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, is anything to go by, it appears that…
In this video, we see the automatic and conditioned reaction of the astronaut who calmed his colleague immediately with an apparent sense of urgency before she could even utter a scream. At an analysis of…
A top Nasa scientist said the space agency needs to be “more aggressive” in the hunt for alien life A NASA scientist admits that it’s entirely possible aliens have already visited Earth – and we…