Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of the moon. The winning consortium, led by … [+4213 chars]
Searching for planets beyond our solar system takes us out of this world – in fact, high above it. While the first exoplanets – planets around other stars – were discovered using ground-based telesc… [+3369 chars]
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Moon fans and casual lunar observers: If everything goes according to plan, the full moon in March will rise on Friday, March 18. Known as the Worm Moon, it will be brightest at around 3:20 a.m. ET. … [+2086 chars]
Climate change can impact life on Earth. According to a new study, it can also influence the dead. A fossil of a crustacean claw exoskeleton from the Posidonia Shale in Germany. Image Credit: Drew M… [+4228 chars]
March 7 marked the 20th anniversary of the installation of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) by astronauts during the Hubble Servicing Mission 3B. The ACS has a wide … [+2142 chars]
Observers have been tracking a chunk of space junk, waiting for it to strike the Moon. It should have hit the far side of the Moon. Hopefully, we have the images of the crash. No one is claiming on … [+1785 chars]
A ‘Kodiak’ Moment: This enhanced color image was acquired by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 18, 2021 (sol 57). Kodiak, the prominent layered mound, stands app… [+2973 chars]
While our knowledge of dinosaurs and other extinct animals has dramatically increased during the last couple of decades, their gaits the order and timing of how animals move their legs have remained … [+5176 chars]
Graphene, which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms, is the poster child of carbon-based 2D nanomaterials. It has many attractive properties that could be exploited in next-generation electron… [+3512 chars]
COPENHAGEN - More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,0… [+993 chars]
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was selected by public input as the "Image of the Week" for Week 54 (Feb.… [+3380 chars]
