Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe is getting yet another extra day on the International Space Station as his return to Earth sees another delay to Monday. Stibbe had originally been set to come back on… [+2755 chars]
The surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa is criss-crossed with double ridges which are similar to those in Greenland’s ice sheet. Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa indicat… [+4191 chars]
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 24, marks the 32nd birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope. Since its launch in 1990, the telescope has helped uncover secrets of the universe as well as produced some absolute… [+2163 chars]
NASA has shared a throwback picture of Earth and its only natural satellite - known as the Moon - which was captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the agency's … [+1350 chars]
New York, April 23 Researchers have identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Ocean—one of Earth’s main cooling systems. Ozone is a gas composed of three ox… [+2495 chars]
While the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 32 years in orbit, like a fine wine, it has only gotten better with age as it continues to study the Universe and teach us more about our place in the cosm… [+4820 chars]
Aerospace and defense powerhouse SpaceX famously launches rockets into orbit, then turns them around and lands its flight-proven rockets back on Earth. In the annals of space travel, it's the only pr… [+4292 chars]
Fossilized spider from the Aix-en-Provence Formation in France seen in hand sample overlain with fluorescent microscopy image of the same fossil. Under normal lighting the spider fossil is hard to di… [+7412 chars]
Physicist Hantao Ji with figures from magnetic reconnection paper. Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications; collage by Kiran Sudarsanan. A puzzling process called magnetic reconnection t… [+4838 chars]
Tiny crystals of zircon dated to 3.8 billion years ago contain the earliest geochemical evidence yet for plate tectonic activity here on Earth. Isotopes and trace elements preserved in the crystals … [+3861 chars]
In a new study, scientists suggest that the reason Venus is not tidally locked to the Sun like the way the Moon is locked to the Earth, is the soupy, fast-moving, hot atmosphere on Venus. The scienti… [+2039 chars]
New York, April 23 Researchers have identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Ocean—one of Earth’s main cooling systems. Ozone is a gas composed of three ox… [+2495 chars]
