The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon scheduled to launch NASAs Crew-4 astronauts have been mated prior to rolling out of the hangar at Kennedy Space Centers Launch Complex 39A. Credit: SpaceX The SpaceX D… [+2282 chars]
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week, offering a possible opportunity to see a dozen or so meteors an hour streaking across the night sky. The Lyrids occur each year when Earth's orbit takes it … [+4180 chars]
According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), a powerful solar flare on the surface of the Sun caused radio blackouts in Asia and Australia. On Sunday, April 17, a solar flare peaked an… [+2172 chars]
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptunes atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptunes global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic… [+8068 chars]
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped an image of a barred spiral galaxy called M91. Also known as NGC 4548 or Messier 91, the galaxy is located approximately 55 million light-years from E… [+804 chars]
The Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i captured a strange flying whirlpool whizzing across the night sky at the weekend. Anyone looking up would have been very curious at its cause, before probably shruggin… [+2691 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]
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]
Star Wars turned into real life? A NASA doctor appeared as a hologram at the International Space Station for a telemedicine visit with an astronaut in Oct. 8, 2021, according to a recent release from… [+1174 chars]
A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a … [+6111 chars]
A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation , non-ionizing and io… [+3793 chars]
New research might have finally found why one side of the Moon's surface is different from the other. The research revealed that one side of the Moon's surface might have been impacted when a massi… [+2046 chars]
