A replica of the world’s first liquid propellant rocket, PC: Wikimedia Commons On March 16, 1926,…
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In 2005, crickets were fertilised aboard the ISS; 112 embryos and larvae were studied, and the microgravity-exposed larvae hatched earlier than ground controls
Cricket on a plant (Image Credit: Canva) In 2005, scientists conducted an unusual experiment aboard the…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed…
NASA is offering up to $500,000 for new technology to measure Earth’s extremely thin upper atmosphere and improve predictions of how space weather changes satellite orbits
Representative Image (AI-generated) Earth’s atmosphere does not simply end where airplanes stop flying. Far above the…
Watch: Indian-origin Nasa astronaut Anil Menon takes second spacewalk
Menon had already completed his first spacewalk earlier this month. He spent six hours and 27…
Since Webb discovered mysterious “little red dots” in 2022, astronomers have struggled to explain them; a galaxy seen 3.3 billion years after the Big Bang may finally reveal their hidden evolution
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Pierluigi Rinaldi (Steward Observatory); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Since…
Astronomers caught the first sign of a star 30 times more massive than the Sun exploding, then tracked its supernova for nearly three months
A combination of images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by…
China controls about 80% of the tungsten market; a Nevada company says it has found 1.78 million tonnes, but NASA is blocking mining on part of the site
A potentially enormous tungsten resource has been identified beneath the Nevada desert, but a NASA land…
Scientists say global warming is accelerating: Here’s why the world could reach the 1.5°C climate limit sooner than expected |
For decades, the rise in Earth’s average temperature has appeared to follow a fairly consistent upward…
As Nasa’s Moon to Mars mission nears, scientists may finally have an answer to the problem that would have killed anyone standing on the Moon in 1972
FILE – In this April 11, 1970, photo made available by NASA, the Saturn V rocket…