Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 11, 2023 - Before NASA's Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission can be outfitted with its solar array wings, teams at the agency's Kennedy Space Center must first verify that the arrays extend and close p

Seismographs are the best resource available for scientists to investigate the interior of the planet

Long gone are the days when astronomers only studied the skies with simple optical telescopes. Today, unveiling the mysteries of the Universe involves

New instruments and plans for a seventh telescope at Georgia State’s CHARA Array will allow scientists to see the stars in greater detail than ever before. The update comes after a group of international scientists gathered in Atlanta to take part in the 2023…

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma has published a perspective article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences advocating for convergent research that integrates the fields of biogeography and behavio…

From NASA.gov: There’s an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minut…

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Astronomers discovered the first evidence of giant black holes in colliding dwarf galaxies, offering important insights into early universe galaxy formation and black hole growth. The findings were made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, WISE, and CFHT d…

New research reveals that ice being lost from glaciers that flow into lakes in the Himalayas has been significantly underestimated. This discovery has critical implications for predicting the demise of the region’s glaciers and for managing critical water res…

NASA's successful Artemis 1 Moon mission paved the way for Artemis 2 — the second of three missions to land humans on the Moon again. The Artemis 2 crew will not step foot on the lunar surface. But they will be the first humans to fly close to the Moon in ove…

The Air Force’s new trainer aircraft, the T-7, may start flight testing this summer as Boeing and the service resolve an ejection seat issue.

Caltech researchers have created an interactive map of Mars that lets anyone explore the surface of the Red Planet in unprecedented detail.

Dr. Makenzie Lystrup chose the iconic book, which was inspired by a 1990 photograph of Earth from space.

What are Fast Radio Bursts? Did we get a step closer to answering this question by associating some of them with a Kilonova event? What Cosmology questions c...

Just before noon on Saturday, eyewitnesses reported seeing a bright fireball in the sky.

There's a lot of 'Trek' around these days aimed at kids. How about something aimed at grown ups for a change?

Three engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on Polar

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which arrived on Mars aboard the Perseverance rover in February 2021, has surpassed its original mission parameters, flying for almost two years and setting new records in altitude and speed.

Multiple periods of extreme warming in the earth’s past followed “tipping points” involving the release of greenhouse gases, according to research published in the journal Science Advances. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht Univers…

More than 500 million years ago, early vertebrates acquired bacterial DNA that made possible their evolution of vision

NASA’s Juno mission completed its 50th close pass by Jupiter on April 8, 2023. To mark the 50th close pass, NASA teamed up with Google Arts & Culture to feature a selection of JunoCam images.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intriguing jellyfish galaxy

Bigger feet in one squirrel, no sperm in the other. Is a warming planet to blame?

The massive Kepler survey found a treasure trove of exoplanets. But in all that wealth they found three anomalies: what appeared to be rings of dust surrounding stars where planets should be. They were rocky planets in the process of being obliterated. And a …

Three engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on Polar bear fur. The results, published recently in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, are al…