How do you tell the time in Space? ESA's push for a lunar time zone
Space organizations around the world are studying the best way to establish "a common lunar reference time"
Space organizations around the world are studying the best way to establish "a common lunar reference time"
The future of lunar and space exploration depends on finding water, and now NASA knows exactly where to look.
NASA said an asteroid this size passing so close to Earth happens once in a decade. The asteroid DZ2 could appear in the sky as a "slow-moving star."
The burials contain the oldest evidence of a cultural practice still around today.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of a solar tornado made of boiling plasma. It's the latest mind-blowing event on the sun.
Asteroid 2023 DZ2, which is estimated to be 210 feet in diameter, will be closer to Earth than the moon when it zooms past our planet.
An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will hurtle between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend in a close encounter visible through binoculars and small telescopes. The chunk of space rock measuring up to 300ft (90m), around the size of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower (316ft or 96m) which houses Big Ben, will fly by at about 17,500mph. Passing at around 100,000 miles (168,000km) - less than half the distance between Earth and the moon - will give astronomers the chance to study the "city killer" asteroid at close quarters.
MOSCOW (AP) — Two cosmonauts and an astronaut who were supposed to leave the International Space Station this month will be brought back to Earth in late September, doubling their time aboard the orbiting laboratory to more than a year, Russia's space agency announced Friday. The return of Russians Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, and NASA's Frank Rubio was delayed after the Soyuz capsule they planned to ride in developed a coolant leak while docked to the space station. An empty Soyuz was s
An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies. Saturday’s close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles (168,000 kilometers) away. While asteroid flybys are common, NASA said it’s rare for one so big to come so close — about once a decade.
Hear from those studying the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica about what they observed, and how it could impact our world.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study suggests. It might have been deep-rooted in prehistoric animals that lived millions of years ago, before fish and mammals like us diverged on the tree of life, according to researchers who published their study Thursday in the journal Science. “Some of the mechanisms that underlie our ability to experience fear, or fall in and out of love, are clearly very ancient pathways,” said Hans Hofmann, an
Much like Neo in The Matrix, one computer scientist explores how humanity could hack its way out of its own simulation.
In a sobering update Thursday, researchers shared their latest findings on the legacy of DDT ocean dumping off the L.A. coast — which turned out to be even more widespread than expected.
The newly discovered trapdoor spider, the Euoplos dignitas, was found in the Brigalow Belt in Queensland, Australia.
Jupiter’s moon Io has more than 400 active volcanoes on its surface.
Berlin held a ceremony on Thursday to bury the bone fragments of what scientists believe to be victims of crimes committed in the name of science including in the Nazi era, that were uncovered in recent years. Fragments of human and animal bones were first found by chance on the campus of Berlin's Free University in 2014 during construction work. It was suspected that they originated from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, which stood on the site from 1927 to 1945.
Gene-edited food can now be developed and sold in England, but not in the rest of the UK.
Adam Driver wondered how NASA would save the world if a giant asteroid were approaching. Three space missions show the agency has a plan.
How hot is too hot? Can humans survive excessive temperatures? Where do these heat records exist? All your burning questions answered.
A flyby by such a large asteroid only happens once a decade, Nasa says
Northern Californians were able to see the aurora borealis, or northern lights, Thursday due to a severe geomagnetic spacial storm, scientists said.