A total lunar eclipse is heading Canadas way in mid-May. Slated for the night of May 15th, the eclipse should be visible from coast to coast, though, as usual, local weather conditions and time zone… [+4606 chars]
Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday.… [+3974 chars]
'Skookum Jim' Mason, one of the discoverers of gold in the Klondike in the 1890s. Last week, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him, based on a suggestion by the Yukon Astro… [+3663 chars]
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 oxygen atoms. Many s… [+2491 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Rover first landed on the surface of Mars just over a year ago, on February 18th, 2021. Perseverance landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars and, in its first science campaign, has c… [+2067 chars]
The next crew of astronauts heading to the space station An update on our Artemis I mega Moon rocket and spacecraft And celebrating our home planet a few of the stories to tell you about This Week… [+5241 chars]
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare, which can be seen in the lower right. NASA/SDO The sun unleashed a powerful side flare this week. The eruption came from a s… [+2469 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]
A controversial Harvard scientist says he wants to launch an investigation into a meteor that he believes is actually alien technology lying at the bottom of Pacific Ocean. Last week, the US Space C… [+4100 chars]
NASA researchers and their industry partners have joined forces to engineer a remote-sensing mapping system called the Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) that is set to aid astrona… [+2019 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Rover first landed on the surface of Mars just over a year ago, on February 18th, 2021. Perseverance landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars and, in its first science campaign, has c… [+2067 chars]
In the ultrahigh vacuum of a scanning tunneling microscope, a hydrogen molecule is held between the silver tip and sample. Femtosecond bursts of a terahertz laser excite the molecule, turning it into… [+4368 chars]
