Aboard The First Private Moon Landing Attempt
The last screw is tightened and a private Moon lander is packed in the fairing atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air…
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Scientists Create DNA-Like Molecule to Search for Alien Life
Scientists Discover Solar Tadpole-Like Jets Coming Out Of The Sun
SOFIA Reveals Clues to the Evolution of Universe
Hubble Spots Tiny Moon “That Shouldn’t Be There”
ESA’s Gaia Satellite Discovers Billion-Year-Old River of Stars
Scientists Use Acoustic Waves to Monitor Stiffness of Living Cells
TRAPPIST-1 Exposed to Heavy Bombardment of Charged Particles
Hubble Image of the Week – A Storm is Coming
New Project Seeks to Replicate the Cradle of Life
Yale professor of geology and geophysics Jun Korenaga will take part in a new, NASA-supported project that will examine the specific conditions that led to…
Chandra Solves the Universe’s “Missing Mass” Problem
New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may have helped solve the Universe’s “missing mass” problem. Astronomers cannot account for about a third of the…
Hubble Captures Herbig-Haro Objects of a Newborn Star
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the smoking gun of a newborn star, the Herbig–Haro objects numbered 7 to 11 (HH…
Merging Neutron Stars Provide Insight Into Fundamental Properties of Matter
The option to measure the gravitational waves of two merging neutron stars has offered the chance to answer some of the fundamental questions about the…
New NASA Mission Will Explore the Origins of Universe
NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life…
Scientists Reveal Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars
A study published last year in the journal Science suggested liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. Now, a new…
ESO Image of the Week – Worlds With Many Suns
This week’s Picture of the Week highlights another of the 20 images to come out of ALMA’s first Large Program, the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP)….
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration
Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a half years, flying repeatedly through a hazardous zone of charged…
New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Mongolia, Gobiraptor Minutus
A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a study published in February 6, 2019 in the open-access journal…