The thought of a soft landing on any planet or the Moon is a terrifying few minutes for space scientists. The greatest challenge for soft landing is to detect the ground and land on the ground at the right speed, says Amitabha Ghosh, a scientist for NASA’s Ro…
Over the past 20 years, huge swathes of seas around the globe have changed color, displaying a subtle greening towards the tropics that researchers say points to the effect of climate change on life in the world's oceans.
Chinese scientists have observed high-temperature superconductivity in single crystals of a nickelate, which will help solve the superconductivity mechanism and unleash more applications in fields such as information technology and aerospace technology.
In the last 24 hours, as many as 8 M-class solar flares have erupted on a new sunspot sparking a rolling series of radio blackouts all across the Earth, NASA satellite detected. Is this a sign of a big incoming solar storm?
Both the rockets will enter the moon's orbit and after a successful docking the astronauts will enter the lunar lander to descend onto the moon's surface, state media reported on Wednesday, citing a China Manned Space Agency engineer.
While smaller asteroids tend to pass Earth nearly every day, NASA has issued an alert against a mammoth, stadium-sized asteroid that will come very close to the planet soon.
Three objects spotted lurking in the murk of the Cosmic Dawn could be powered by collisions between particles made not of normal star stuff but the enigmatic material known as dark matter.
Chinese officials on Wednesday unveiled new details about their plans for a manned lunar mission, as China attempts to become only the second nation to put citizens on the moon.
Twenty-five years ago in a German bar, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that we’d understand the neural basis for consciousness by 2023. Last month, the winner of the bet received a case of wine. Ian Sample talks to Christof and Dav…
Apple’s fate is sealed by climate change this year. It may no longer be the forbidden fruit, but it will undoubtedly be the most expensive fruit this season. And the money, as usual, won’t go to the farmers.
When the RIME antenna on ESA’s Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge to understand the fault and rectify it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter’s mysterious icy moons. The stakes were…
I am reevaluating these iconic locations when the guns are lowered and deciding, once for all, which would be the best place to move and start a family.
We've all heard or used the phrase "since the dawn of time " but have you ever actually seen it? Thanks to NASA's James Webb telescope you can! It's been one...
Scientists at Leipzig University, in collaboration with colleagues at Vilnius University in Lithuania, have developed a new method to measure the smallest twists and torques of molecules within milliseconds.