Astronauts Have Taken The First Human X‑Rays in Space - ScienceAlert
For more than 65 years, humans have been soaring through space....
A satellite launched in 1958, no bigger than a grapefruit and silent since 1964, is still the oldest human-made object circling Earth — and it is expected to keep quietly orbiting overhead for another few centuries - Space Daily
On 17 March 1958, a three-stage rocket lifted a polished aluminium sphere from Cape Canaveral and placed it in a long, e...
People stunned after seeing how fast the International Space Station actually moves as wild simulation shows it at ground level - supercarblondie.com
This simulation shows what it would look like if the International Space Station was to move at ground level, and it's l...
Seals have a unique superpower in their ears, and we finally know how it evolved - The Conversation
Unlike all other mammals, seals can hear both in the air and underwater. How do they do this?...
Astronomers uncover the earliest known signs of galaxy-building in action - Phys.org
Astronomers at Durham University have made a major advance in understanding how galaxies formed and evolved in the early...
Sandwiched Between Pittsburgh And Gettysburg Is Pennsylvania's Lesser-Known Park Filled With Endless Outdoor Fun - islands.com
Small but perfectly formed, this charming park in Pennsylvania is packed with outdoor adventures without having to worry...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope set to unlock the universe's biggest mysteries - upi.com
NASA is gearing up to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this summer, sending the spacecraft 1 million miles f...
NASA once reactivated Voyager 1 thrusters that had been unused for 37 years, sending commands across interstellar space to machinery built before many of the engineers operating it were born - Space Daily
On 28 November 2017, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent Voyager 1 a command to fire four thrusters tha...
The Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Just Weighed In on One of Cosmology's Biggest Arguments - Universe Today
Astronomers have measured the ages of over a hundred and fifty thousand ancient stars scattered across our Galaxy, and f...
Ocean acidification emerging as a planetary signal linking today's carbon emissions to Earth's deep-time memory - Phys.org
When most people hear the phrase "ocean acidification," they think of coral reefs, shellfish or declining fisheries. Tho...
SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th time, sending Starlink satellites to orbit - Space
The milestone was reached on the second launch of a coast-to-coast doubleheader....
FCC approves startup’s space mirror to reflect sunlight to dark parts of Earth - The Hill
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a startup business’s request to build and launch a mirror satelli...
Dogs do not see the world in black and white: they see much as a red-green colourblind person does, in blues and yellows — reds and greens simply fade to murky browns and grey, but colour is very much there - Space Daily
Dogs do not see only in black and white. That is one of the most stubborn myths in popular biology, and it is wrong. Dog...
Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa — much longer than previously thought - Live Science
Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that gene...
A park ranger lowered himself into an Australian canyon expecting to document an ordinary patch of rainforest and found a stand of trees that had been missing from the living world for millions of years - Space Daily
In September 1994, David Noble used ropes to enter a remote sandstone gorge in Wollemi National Park, northwest of Sydne...
We tend to assume Earth is a rare cosmic fluke, but a full analysis of NASA's Kepler data found at least 300 million rocky, habitable-zone planets around Sun-like stars in the Milky Way alone — and that is the conservative count - Space Daily
NASA's Kepler mission did not detect 300 million temperate rocky planets. It observed a narrow field of stars, found the...
1st-ever X-rays in space offer hope for possible patients headed to the moon - Space
The astronauts on board the private Fram2 Crew Dragon mission in 2025 took the first ever medical X-rays in space....
Mirrors in Space? The FCC Just Approved a Sun-Reflecting Satellite, and Astronomers Are Worried - CNET
For now, a single satellite has been cleared for a test demonstration, but the company making it hopes to eventually lau...
Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free "Organ Sacks" - Futurism
A cofounder of a secretive startup fought to keep an interview about its quest to build brain-free "organ sacks" out of ...
After Nearly 50 Years In The Depths Of Space, Voyager 1 Still Sends Messages That Take 23 Hours To Reach Earth - Jalopnik
Even crippled, even without power, even without applause from the beings who first made it, Voyager 1 may yet make itsel...
You can see this comet tonight. But you'll need a telescope or binoculars - USA Today
Now is your chance to see a comet that takes more than five years to return to Earth's cosmic neighborhood. Here's what ...
World-first neutron lens brings sharp focus to structures inside materials and objects - Phys.org
Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have developed the world's first achromatic lens for neutron imaging. The l...
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft chased Earth’s tiny quasi-moon for 400 days and 1 billion kilometres — but just as it returned the first close-up image, new evidence challenged the leading theory that Kamoʻoalewa is a fragment blasted from the Moon - Space Daily
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has reached Kamoʻoalewa and returned the first close-range image of the small asteroid tha...
Weird Mountains on Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon Reveals a Surprising Past - Gizmodo
Charon might be a slower-spinning, flatter version of its former self....