The Kepler Space Telescope may have been retired in 2018, but data from the mission is still being used to make new discoveries. Recently, an international team of astronomers used data from the miss… [+2738 chars]
If you had an enormous measuring tape that started at Earth's center and went to our planet's highest peak, you wouldn't be looking at Mount Everest. Rather, the tallest mountain would be on the othe… [+2332 chars]
Our solar system is a living, breathing universe. A sophisticated camera on NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a spacecraft orbiting the red planet discovered a recent impact site on the Martian surf… [+1619 chars]
An international team of almost one hundred scientists has uncovered the complete, gap-free human genome by deciphering the remaining and hitherto unknown sequences – opening the door for novel appro… [+4368 chars]
On April 1, SpaceX launched the fourth of its dedicated rideshare missions, which placed one reasonably large satellite and dozens of smallsats into low Earth orbit. At 12:24 p.m. Eastern, the Falco… [+4775 chars]
This article by Guy Plint, Western University and Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University originally appeared on the Conversation and is published here with permission. Giant crocodiles once roamed … [+3786 chars]
If you had an enormous measuring tape that started at Earth's center and went to our planet's highest peak, you wouldn't be looking at Mount Everest. Rather, the tallest mountain would be on the othe… [+2332 chars]
The awe-inspiring moment that a powerful solar flare erupted from the sun earlier this week has been captured by NASA. The space agencys Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted the super hot stream of ra… [+3248 chars]
Billions of years ago, some unknown location on the sterile, primordial Earth became a cauldron of complex organic molecules from which the first cells emerged. Origin-of-life researchers have propos… [+3656 chars]
NASA has delayed a critical test of its next-generation Space Launch System . On Sunday, the agency had planned to fuel the rocket as part of a wet dress rehearsal designed to replicate the launch c… [+1490 chars]
NASA recently conducted a presentation to announce the second round of Human Landing System choices, which will construct a second lunar lander to augment the SpaceX Lunar Starship, which would trans… [+4331 chars]
The image from the Hubble Space Telescope this week shows the dusty galaxy NGC 7172, located 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the southern fish). This might look… [+1959 chars]
