Asteroid 2013 BO76, which was approaching Earth on Thursday, has not impacted the planet, but it was the closest asteroid to pass Earth in 2022. The asteroid maintained its course at a speed of 50,00… [+2093 chars]
As NASA prepares to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s, figuring out how to keep astronauts healthy during the three-year mission has been a challenge. But researchers from the University of … [+2655 chars]
Jessica Watkins, a planetary scientist and NASA astronaut, will travel to the International Space Station on April 15 and will most likely be in space when the agencys Artemis 1 mission to the moon l… [+5579 chars]
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary, and then in through the aft optics assembly where t… [+4807 chars]
Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world's cities and coastlines, a study has shown. The wor… [+5428 chars]
An announcement regarding the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program will drop on Wednesday, March 30th. NASA has promised that the "exciting new observation" by Hubble will be "one for the record boo… [+765 chars]
Collecting satellite data for research is a group effort thanks to this app developed for Android users. Camaliot is a campaign funded by the European Space Agency, and its first project focuses on m… [+5214 chars]
China's Venus mission might really happen as the Chinese government shows intent in expanding its planetary exploration efforts. China is considered one of the biggest competitors of the National A… [+2796 chars]
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours' worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson, this… [+4214 chars]
Our morning sky presents a good demonstration that the planets do indeed move, and that they all dont move at the same rate, nor always in the same direction. The planetary trio of Venus, Mars, and S… [+3518 chars]
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Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world’s cities and coastlines, a study has shown.The world… [+4777 chars]
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