Life got started on Earth while the planet was still somewhat unstable. It could have got started within 100 million years of Earths formation at 4.5 billion years ago or as late as 3.5 billion years… [+4913 chars]
Nothing can escape a black hole, not even light. In simple words, they are the regions of space with an extremely strong gravitational field. But we can see the effects black holes have on the space … [+2904 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it has chosen a team to make oxygen on the moon. The team, led by aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space, will design and build a payload to create o… [+1939 chars]
Astronomers can detect powerful bursts of energy from the deep and deep universe. Sometimes the source of these eruptions is a mystery. Scientists recently observed a giant explosion about 130 mi… [+3732 chars]
NASA and crowdsourcing platform HeroX have launched a $30,000 challenge to find better ways to analyze data relating to Mars' potential to host life. The deadline to make your submission is April 18… [+3344 chars]
A powerful NASA telescope, for the first time aboard the ISS (International Space Station), observed merging “hot spots” on a weird star, known as a magnetar. The telescope is called the NICER (Neut… [+2512 chars]
A jet erupts from a young star in the object HH34 in this Hubble Space Telescope image unveiled on March 7, 2022. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini) The Hubble Space Telescope captured… [+2003 chars]
NASA has brought out its massive rocket transporter at the Kennedy Space Center which is making its way to carry the brand new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the launch pad. Called crawler-trans… [+2308 chars]
The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. For all that time, some tubes wer… [+2773 chars]
A passion for the outdoors drives many of our adventures. And when we’re not outside, we love to immerse ourselves in discoveries about the places we live and travel. Here are some of the best natura… [+4556 chars]
Once the James Webb Space Telescope begins science operations this summer, it will the world’s most powerful space telescope, and it will open new avenues for astronomy research. One of the researche… [+2269 chars]
Robinson, a 1978 graduate of Dan River High School, has been program director for the $10 billion project for four years. It is the largest and most powerful space science observatory in history, acc… [+6310 chars]
