This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. The history-making Ingenuity helicopter, currently parked in the Jezero Crater on Mars, will be getting more vacation tim… [+1500 chars]
When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation in 1995, the image instantly became a classic. This fascinating look at a region that births many stars captured th… [+2583 chars]
Many science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding because of friction as prototypical examples of the systems physicists care about. But much of modern physics consists o… [+22747 chars]
Study co-author Agnieszka Wykowska pictured with the deceptively "self-aware" robot iCub. (Image credit: Italian Institute of Technology) (opens in new tab)An uncannily human-like robot that had bee… [+6940 chars]
A team of astronomers recently detected a fast radio burst that persists about 1,000 times longer than the average burst and has a clear periodic pattern. The radio burst is an eclectic new addition … [+3576 chars]
There are 13 observatories on Maunakea, including the Gemini North telescope (right) and the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (left).Credit: David Nunuk/Science Photo Library The state of Hawaii has s… [+5368 chars]
I’m running on 3 hours of sleep, but I got these for you. #AuroraBorealis#NorthernLights#NBpic.twitter.com/UfL3XDZKym — Brad Perry (@bradjperry) July 8, 2022 On Thursday, July 7, 2022, photographs … [+2811 chars]
It is, low-key, a triumph of the human spirit. A lot of people sometimes see pictures of space, and it makes them feel small, said Eric Smith, a lead scientist on the Webb project. When I see these … [+1500 chars]
Did you catch the supermoon? There was a full moon Wednesday night, and at the same time, the moon was closer to Earth than usual. That combo is called a supermoon. The closer proximity to Earth c… [+313 chars]
(CNN)A mystery surrounding human fossils found in a cave in China has been solved by DNA sequencing, according to a new study, and it sheds light on the ancestry of the very first Americans. In 1989… [+5772 chars]
New findings show that Earth-size planets may be even less likely to survive the violent conditions at the end of some stars' lives than previously believed. This means that the first exoplanet disco… [+4960 chars]
The images show Jupiter and its Moon in a new light. While the entire world was busy gushing over the flurry of images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the American space agency NA… [+2124 chars]
