The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million...
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Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it’s no surprise that scientists would...
A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space...
Meteoroid impacts create seismic waves that cause Mars to shake more strongly and deeply than previously thought....
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide...
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid...
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the...
A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A...
Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas...
Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel...
In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the...
NASA’s commercial partners have mounted a vigorous defense of the Artemis moon mission plans amid the specter...
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the...
The U.S. government gives other nations US$68 billion of foreign assistance annually—more than any other country. Over...
Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We’ve reported before on the idea...
While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire...
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into...
Though it’s a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image...
NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight...