(Photo: Rocket Lab) Tomorrow a private aerospace company will attempt to snatch its own rocket booster out of mid air using a helicopter. Southern California-based Rocket Lab builds and launches a v… [+2156 chars]
A SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, April 8, 2022. NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX launched a first … [+1719 chars]
Because of its outstanding transparency as well as its stability in contact with heat or chemicals, glass is relevant for many high-tech applications. However, conventional processes for shaping glas… [+4007 chars]
One year ago today (April 19), an aircraft flew on a world beyond Earth for the first time ever. That history-making vehicle is NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which landed inside the Red Planet… [+4562 chars]
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) satellite orbiting Mars has captured another piece of NASA equipment on the surface of the Red Planet. An image captured by the MRO's High Resolution Imaging… [+975 chars]
Yesterday, two Russian cosmonauts spent six hours and 37 minutes in low Earth orbit installing a giant robotic arm on the International Space Station thats designed to work autonomously, move its way… [+2802 chars]
Originally discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or as researchers refer to them, FRBs, are one of the many mysteries of the universe that are yet to be fully explained by science. FRBs are a radio… [+1278 chars]
Fossils unearthed at Winton, in Queensland's central west, more than a decade ago have been officially identified as Australia's smallest sauropod.
Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobitescreatures that were distant cousins of horseshoe crabs. All trilobites had a wide range of vision, thanks to compound eye… [+5343 chars]
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called the Hickson Compact Group 40. This snapshot refl… [+3302 chars]
The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 chars]
An expert has warned that a message broadcast out to space revealing Earth’s location could provoke an invasion from aliens. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a basic one ca… [+1232 chars]