For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter...
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El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the...
This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists...
The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy...
In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off...
Turns out, it’s as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to...
Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate...
A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California...
Honda will partner with US companies to test in orbit a renewable energy technology it hopes to...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light...
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of...
Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan have something important in common....
A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray...
Sometimes, the best way to learn how to do something is just to do it. That is...
How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans?...
An international study led by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has demonstrated...
What are the dangers of going to space?
The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that “cosmologists are often in error,...
The same dirt that clings to astronauts’ boots may one day keep their lights on. In a...
A research team, led by Professor Sung-Deuk Choi from the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental...