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]
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]
Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of an "exceptionally well preserved" ancient animal near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario, Canada, in a stone quarry that is such … [+3933 chars]
The eerie, ethereal sound of the singing saw has been a part of folk music traditions around the globe. Made from bending a metal hand saw and bowing it like a cello, the instrument reached its heyd… [+5398 chars]
The seismometer placed on Mars by NASAs InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The pair are the first recorded events to oc… [+3255 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]
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) Charlie Duke is part of a tiny fraternity thats getting even smaller: People who walked on the moon. Duke, 86, visited his Apollo 16 spaceship on Wednesday at the U.S. Space a… [+1518 chars]
An international team led by researchers from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California used computer modelling simulations to discover that climate change is altering the… [+2562 chars]
The first fully commercial, non-government crew to visit the International Space Station got another bonus day in space Saturday after mission managers opted to delay their return to Earth from Sunda… [+2498 chars]