Orbex's Prime rocket reaching technical readiness represents a significant achievement that brings together key elements of the ground infrastructure and prototype launch vehicle for the first time a… [+4414 chars]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures and climate change. T… [+6768 chars]
Are we about to see the unseeable for a second time? Decades of calculations and data show there is a supermassive black hole, about 4 million times more massive than our sun, lurking at the heart of… [+3636 chars]
The shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today’s tropics, according to a new study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers. The stud… [+5918 chars]
A new study performed at the University of Eastern Finland has shown that variations caused in both the size and distribution of the pine beauty moth population are connected to higher temperatures. … [+2581 chars]
<li>Chomiuk, L., Metzger, B. D. & Shen, K. J. New insights into classical novae. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys.59, 391-444 (2021). </li><li>Starrfield, S., Iliadis, C. & Hix, W. R. The thermo… [+8155 chars]
Mysterious Mars aurora lights were spotted by the Hope spacecraft of the Emirates Mars Mission program. This is a major discovery since other giant government-backed and independent space companies w… [+2622 chars]
A study led by scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and University of Kent uncovers how the genome three-dimensional structure of male germ cells determines how genomes evolve ov… [+6939 chars]
InSights Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer, which detected the Marsquake. (Courtesy: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech)
On the morning of 17 March, the worlds largest set of doors rolled open to reveal an aerospace marvel at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. There, in NASAs biggest building, stood i… [+15804 chars]
SpaceX still envisions boots on Mars by 2030 and the rocket that will make the trip heading to orbit for the first time as soon as next month. "We should put people on the surface of Mars... in this … [+1562 chars]
Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London used whale skulls to trace three waves of evolution among whalesScientists from the Natural History Museum in London have used whale skulls to expla… [+3659 chars]