A spectacular fireball seen streaking over the west of England last Wednesday night may have dropped a meteorite in Shropshire, scientists claim. Scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll) be… [+6939 chars]
Animation of the Perseverance Rover driving on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech Collecting samples as it explores an ancient and now-dry river channel is but one goal the six-wheeled geologist will pursue dur… [+5836 chars]
Astrobotic, a Pittsburg-based lunar lander company, has fully assembled the test model for its largest lunar lander in development, the Griffin. A medium-class lander, Griffin is designed to deliver… [+12111 chars]
A spectacular fireball seen streaking over the west of England last Wednesday night may have dropped a meteorite in Shropshire, scientists claim. Scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll) be… [+6939 chars]
NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescopes 32nd birthday with a spectacular look at The Hickson Compact Group 40, an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies. This menagerie includes thre… [+4709 chars]
If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth's sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the same side of the moon … [+3863 chars]
A newly-discovered stellar explosion could change the understanding of how eruptions in stars occur, astronomers have said. A micronova is a blast that lasts for just a few hours and could be commo… [+2201 chars]
Uranus has been sadly neglected. Probes have visited Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury. Heck, even Jupiter's moons are getting their own spacecraft. But the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, in … [+5299 chars]
In 2003, archaeologists looking for evidence of the migration of modern humans from Asia to Australia stumbled across a small, fairly complete skeleton of an extinct human species on the Indonesian i… [+2644 chars]
Let's do a thought experiment: imagine a ball sitting on a table. Now imagine some person comes in and pushes that ball, making it roll across the surface of the table until it reaches the edge and f… [+5458 chars]
A pair of massive sunspot swarms, some large enough to devour the Earth whole, have appeared on the surface of the Sun, increasing the chance of an intense solar storm. Sunspots are dark regions of … [+7221 chars]
In 2003, archaeologists looking for evidence of the migration of modern humans from Asia to Australia stumbled across a small, fairly complete skeleton of an extinct human species on the Indonesian i… [+2644 chars]
