It's been nearly two years since the tiny helicopter Ingenuity and the one-ton rover Perseverance left planet Earth and they've come a very long way since then. In February, last year, they landed in… [+14186 chars]
As future locations to explore in our solar system go, some particularly exciting options are worlds with subsurface oceans. Places like Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa are both tho… [+2573 chars]
Mars can be an awfully windy place, it turns out. The Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet in February 2021 carrying, among other instruments, a weather station dubbed Mars Environmenta… [+3285 chars]
After holding postdoctoral positions at Caltech and the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the astronomy department at the University of Washington in 1967. An avid hiker and mountain clim… [+994 chars]
Space is full of objects like asteroids, comets, stars, planets, meteors, stars, galaxies and more. There are instances when due to the gravitational pull Earth tends to attract certain objects like … [+3912 chars]
Possibility Strange life on Mars It is a topic that has obsessed astronomers for decades. Despite the scientific community’s best efforts, no evidence of past or present life has been found on Mars.… [+2812 chars]
Comets have mystified humanity for millennia, but with the James Webb Space Telescope beginning science operations this month, scientists hope to unravel secrets about these icy objects. In a study … [+3161 chars]
Living as a microbe on the Tibetan Plateau isn't easy. Frigid temperatures, high levels of solar radiation, not a lot to eat, and you'd regularly get frozen and then thawed depending on the time of y… [+2974 chars]
Comets have mystified humanity for millennia, but with the James Webb Space Telescope beginning science operations this month, scientists hope to unravel secrets about these icy objects. In a study … [+3161 chars]
Researchers observe continuous time crystal for the first time. (Artists concept.) Scientists have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that spontaneously breaks continuous time … [+2171 chars]