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The strange mystery of asteroid Phaethon's comet-like tail may have just been solved Astronomers observing the strange "rock comet" hybrid Phaethon as it passed the sun have found a surprise that could upend 14 years of thinking about the weird asteroid. The asteroid Phaethon, which gives us the Geminid meteor shower every year and was ...
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Russia agrees to stay aboard International Space Station through 2028 The other major ISS partners — the space agencies of Europe, Canada and Japan — have signed on through 2030, the update added, joining NASA in committing to the orbiting lab through the envisioned end of its operational life.
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China possibly adding helicopter, 6-legged robot to its Mars sample return mission An outline of science objectives for the Tianwen-3 Mars mission were shown in a presentation at the International Conference of Deep Space Sciences in Hefei, Anhui province on April 22. The mission overview contained references to ...
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Watch SpaceX launch 2 telecom satellites, land rocket at sea today SpaceX will launch two satellites for the telecom company SES today (April 28) and land a rocket at sea, weather permitting, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SES' O3b mPower 3 and 4 satellites is scheduled to lift off from ...
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NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite celebrates 5 years in space NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is now in its fifth year scanning the sky for new worlds. Since its launch on April 18, 2018, TESS has mapped over 93% of the sky from its orbit around Earth, and in that time has produced 329 ...
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Martian dust likely preventing Chinese rover from waking up The chief designer of China's Mars exploration program has provided a long-awaited comment on the status of the country's Zhurong Mars rover. The solar-powered Zhurong rover, which is part of China's Tianwen 1 Mars mission, had been hibernating during ...
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Welcome to the mammalverse: Scientists sequence DNA from 240 species around the world Researchers obtained DNA from all kinds of mammalian critters, like caribou, armadillos, bats, and bison. Their genetic menagerie eventually included 52 endangered species, like the giant otter and the Amazon river dolphin, as well as primates like chimps ...
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Wow! Maxar satellite captures up-close look at NASA's Landsat 8 spacecraft in orbit Maxar Technologies' Worldview-3 satellite has delivered images of NASA's Landsat 8 spacecraft from ranges of between 56 miles (91.4 kilometers) and 80 miles (129.9 km), showing clear details of the powerful Earth-observation satellite.
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Life in the ocean's 'twilight zone' could disappear due to the climate crisis Paleontologists and ocean scientists teamed up to study the impacts on the ocean's twilight zone during previous ancient warming events in order to predict how the habitat may respond in the future due to global warming. The research team ...
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Hubble Telescope celebrates 33rd anniversary with gorgeous photo of nearby stellar nursery The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a stunning new photo of a nearby star-forming region to celebrate its 33rd launch anniversary. Located only 960 light-years away in the Perseus molecular cloud, a reflection nebula known as NGC 1333 harbors hundreds ...
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