Mars is a genuinely inhospitable planet. The air is noxious to breathe, leading to asphyxia in a matter of minutes. But don’t worry. You will be long gone before that gets you, as the atmospheric…

Materials science has long taken the lead in space exploration research, and it seems to have been getting even more attention than usual lately. That is especially true for building materials. NASA has funded several new research programs to develop new buil…

<p>Heat could be harnessed as energy </p>

NASA, on August 21, 1972, launched the Copernicus space telescope which, according to the agency, was the heaviest and most complex observatory of the time.

The moon reached last quarter yesterday, which means the early part of the night is devoid of moonlight and prime time for stargazing. The centre...

A research team from the University of Birmingham and Sapienza Università di Roma has found that water can change from one form of liquid into a denser form of liquid.

UNITED STATES: On August 21, 1972, NASA launched the Copernicus satellite into orbit from Launch Complex 36B which is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Copernicus satellite was the largest and most sophisticated space observatory of its t…

ESO's Very Large Telescope has captured the clearest image of the galaxy NGC 7727 which was formed after the collision of two smaller galaxies.

NASA just released details of its free online broadcast of the mega rocket’s upcoming Moon mission

NASA launched a new tool earlier in 2022 which allows public to find out what did Hubble see on any given date.

"Sunday Morning" takes us among some spotted dolphins in the blue waters off the Bahamas. Videographer: Mauricio Handler."CBS Sunday Morning" features storie...

Middle-aged sunlike stars that have crossed a magnetic transition into a more quiescent phase may harbor planets more prone to develop complex life, according to research reported last month in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Scientists are planning a "CAT scan" of a British Columbia volcano to help harness the underground heat that t...

A new study suggests that the plant alfalfa could be initially used to grow crops on Mars before cultivating more complex and nutrient-rich vegetables.

Here's what a new NASA study revealed.

Apple has reportedly finished development of its initial public release of iOS 16 for September release — but iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura may wait until October.

"Studying the Earth from leaf to orbit." Researchers held an open house in Yellowknife to explain their work on wildfires, on the ground and in the air.

Astronomers are hoping for cloudy skies as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turns its attention to alien atmospheres filled with rocks and

Autistic individuals' stem cells either create too many or too few brain cells. Researchers from Rutgers University have discovered evidence of anomalies in very early brain development that may contribute to the neuropsychiatric condition by studying the bra…

High in the atmosphere of Venus, a swirl of sulfur-containing clouds blankets the planet. Dark spots in these clouds correspond with areas of high ultraviolet light absorption, but researchers have yet to confirm the chemical culprit responsible for

Google has taken a new leap forward in AI, building its most advanced natural language processing into a helper robot that can understand (and act on) normal...

Samples of asteroid Ryugu, which were brought to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have been found to have dust grains that are older than the sun.