NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000...
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Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars...
A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has...
Let’s say you’re in charge of a Mars mission. Okay boss, where do we land? The total...
On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter (“Dawn” in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop...
Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element...
A new study published in Ecological Applications demonstrates that commercial fisheries function much like an investment portfolio:...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to...
An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again.
SpaceX’s sunrise launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday was the 80th launch of the year on the...
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth’s...
The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the...
The universe is a slow-changing place. While it’s mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects...
When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn’t generate the same fanfare as the...
Scientists have uncovered how the plant hormone auxin helps roots bend and downwards towards gravity—a process called...
A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by...
Buried deep in Greenland’s ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate....
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team...
A study of Saturn’s atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed...