What Martian Settlers Need to Know About Soil Can Teach us How to Grow Better on Earth
The Soil Health in Space experiment is now being conducted on the ISS, which could lead to sustainable farming on…
This is What Perseverance’s Landing Site Looked Like Billions of Years Ago. See Why it’s Such a Compelling Target?
Today is a milestone in NASA's Perseverance mission to Mars. At 1:40 pm Pacific time today, the rover will have…
Scientists in Japan Have Found a Detailed Record of the Earth’s Last Magnetic Reversal, 773,000 Years Ago
Every 200,000 to 300,000 years Earth's magnetic poles reverse. What was once the north pole becomes the south, and vice…
OSIRIS-REx Collected So Much Material, the Sample Capsule Overflowed. Time to Bring it All Home.
Is there such as thing as too much asteroid? Scientists and engineers for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx decided to perform an “early…
Astronomers are ready and waiting to detect the neutrino blast from a nearby supernova explosion like Betelgeuse
When giant stars die in impressive supernova blasts, about 99% of the energy released goes into producing a flood of…
Astronomers Map Out the Raw Material for New Star Formation in the Milky Way
A team of researchers has discovered a complex network of filamentary structures in the Milky Way. The structures are made…
There’s a new record for the shortest time measurement: how long it takes light to cross a hydrogen molecule
To measure small differences in time, you need a really tiny clock, and researchers in Germany have discovered the smallest…
SpaceX Starship Passes Static Fire Test With Three Raptor Engines, Finally Gets Nose Cone!
The Starship is coming together, literally and figuratively! With its three Raptor engines test fired, and nosecones and fins attached,…
The Color of Habitable Worlds
“This is where we live. On a Blue Dot.” said Carl Sagan when the now famous Pale Blue Dot photo…