Living on the Moon and Mars means living off the Moon and Mars. In preparation for the return of astronauts to other worlds, engineers are busy trying to build with lunar dust. The first humans to … [+15160 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]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is cracking open a 50-year-old vacuum-sealed tube of lunar gas and soil. It was among one of the 2,196 rock samples collected during NASA's A… [+2755 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 magnetar is an exotic neutron star with an ultra-powerful magnetic field. It is 1,000 times stronger than a normal extremely neutron star.On Oct. 10, 2020, NASAs Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory disc… [+2574 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]
If you ever feel like you're spinning in circles, the annual pi day is a great moment to remind yourself of the power of such thinking. NASA celebrates the famous mathematical ratio each year on Mar… [+1925 chars]
OUTER space is extremely distant yet so close. It would take just over an hour to drive to outer space at highway speeds but the nearest celestial object, the Moon, is about 239,000 miles away. T… [+2031 chars]
The completely new in situ measurement reveals that sound travels more slowly on the red planet than on Earth and that it also undergoes strange fluctuations. Apart from its capital participation in… [+2930 chars]
NASA recently made a reference to the Lady Gaga starrer A Star is Born to describe the formation of a star caught in the agency's Hubble Space Telescope. The film, A Star is Born, saw Lady Gaga and B… [+1912 chars]
