Eugene Parker, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics, is remembered for seminal contributions to the understanding of our sun and solar system Credit: Photo by John Zich/… [+9683 chars]
A loud bang was heard across Bristol in the early hours of this morning (March 19) amid reports of a meteor shower over the West Country. A trail of shooting stars was captured on meteor cameras in B… [+1415 chars]
A joint mission to Mars between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos has been suspended due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ExoMars mission, which included a… [+1791 chars]
3D view of the point in Earth’s mantle below Africa, shown in red, yellow, and orange. Cyan represents the main mantle boundary, blue indicates the surface, and transparent gray indicates the contine… [+4008 chars]
Chinas Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the Red Planet. While the Chinese Space Agency h… [+2993 chars]
Albert Einstein didnt plan to donate his brain to science. In fact, he requested his entire body be cremated and the ashes scattered secretly. But when the theoretical physicist died on April 18, 195… [+14947 chars]
An investigation into how human nerve cells differ from animal cells has provided researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) with important clues in t… [+4079 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be… [+6681 chars]
Dart (double asteroid redirection test) aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday. According to the BBC, the mission will be carried out on… [+1048 chars]
Astronomers have detected at least three small stars masquerading as exoplanets, new research shows. The three, possibly four, stars were originally discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope . A… [+4364 chars]
Gravitational waves are notoriously difficult to detect. Although modern optical astronomy has been around for centuries, gravitational wave astronomy has only been around since 2015. Even now our ab… [+3448 chars]
Saturday 19th March 2022 21:00 GMT Russian cosmonauts have boarded the International Space Station (ISS) wearing unusual yellow spacesuits, prompting speculation that the move is a quiet gesture of… [+4112 chars]
