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Particle physics is not everyone's cup of tea. A team of physicists have theorised the existence of a strange type of particle that behaves differently depending on its direction of travel--massless in one direction but ...

Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or "retroreflectors," on the moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the inc...

From totality to tremendous light shows, our sun put on a shining performance.

This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.

Some white dwarfs have planets, but to be habitable worlds they would need to hold on to their oceans during the star's red giant stage. The post Could Habitable White Dwarf Planets Retain Their Oceans? Maybe. appeared f...

Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or "retroreflectors," on the Moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the inc...

One of the more daunting questions related to astrobiology--the search for life in the cosmos--concerns the nature of life itself. For over a century, biologists have known that life on Earth comes down to the basic buil...

"Alien: Rogue Incursion" virtual reality game for PSVR and and PCVR available now

NASA photographer Joel Kowsky captured this image of the Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. The total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of ...

Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century. Getting enough infrastructure built up is necessary to collect those resources effectively, but...

It's slightly larger than a 5-liter water bottle, and is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of 7.5 kilometers per second. The satellite has two cameras built into its body, and can be controlled quickly and turned smoo...

Kenya Space Agency officials report a large, "red-hot" metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter fell from the sky, crashing into Mukuku village.

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the moon.

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger bits form what we know as shooting stars, and most burn up in the atmosphere. Still, throughou...

Blue Origin has achieved an important milestone with its New Glenn NG-1 rocket, successfully completing a 24-second hotfire of the rocket's BE-4 engines in preparation for an expected test flight in the coming days.

Getting back to the moon is the primary goal of NASA's Artemis program, but what do we do once we get there? That is the challenge tackled by a group of students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who wrote ...

Fall 2024 makes history in the record books as the warmest on record in the past 130 years.

Where culture, creativity, and selfies collide--#MuseumSelfieDay returns January 15.

Trans-Neptunian Objects are the icy remnants of our early solar system. Part of their history can be found in the spectra of molecules and dust on their frozen surfaces. The post The Webb Captures Spectra of Trans-Neptun...

Eutelsat said Jan. 2 it has restored services across its low Earth orbit OneWeb network following a two-day outage. The post Eutelsat resolves OneWeb leap year software glitch after two-day outage appeared first on Space...

A group of astronomers from numerous institutions have investigated a recently discovered nearby tidal disruption event known as ASASSN-22ci. They detected two luminous flares from this event. The finding was reported in...