When the Solar Orbiter spacecraft made its closest flyby of the sun to date in March this year, it scooped up vast amounts of data from which we can learn about our star. The European Space Agency, w… [+2396 chars]
Heretofore the beginning of astronomy, humans have been obsessed with the suspicion as to whether there is life somewhere else in the universe. However, much of the scientific emphasis on Mars is ded… [+1395 chars]
ByColumbia University Quantum InitiativeMay 21, 2022 Spintronic computing artistic concept illustration. Columbia University Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in New … [+5463 chars]
'Are we alone in the universe?' is a question that has puzzled mankind for centuries. But as technological advances took place, search for life was accompanied by another quest. It was to find out ha… [+1047 chars]
Biologist Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel had only observed one example of Asian elephants mourning their dead in the wild after four years of fieldwork in India, according to Science.org the American Assoc… [+2138 chars]
A new video released by NASA shows what the dynamics are like between the closest black holes to Earth and the stars that accompany them. The animation features 22 binary systems located in the Milky… [+2855 chars]
A powerful earthquake recently jolted the Martian desert. On May 4, NASA’s InSight lander deployed to investigate Mars’ inner workings, and recorded the greatest temblor ever detected on another pla… [+1210 chars]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft descends under parachutes on December 22, 2019, at the conclusion of the Orbital Flight Test-1 mission. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Geminani Members of NASA’s Independent Safet… [+10234 chars]
A new dazzling collection of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA, features galaxies that are all hosts to two remarkable celestial phen… [+1861 chars]
Realizing an ultracold bubblepotentially Bose-Einstein condensedrelates to areas of interest, including quantized-vortex flow constrained to a closed surface topology, collective modes, and self-inte… [+3040 chars]
Illumination maps of the lunar South Pole. The shades of gray depict the amount of sunlight received ... [+] during 2024. The floors of many of the craters receive no sunlight at all they're permanen… [+3104 chars]
What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn’s moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was… [+5368 chars]