NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is just two days away from launch, marking the arrival of the agency’s next flagship astrophysics mission after the James Webb Space Telescope. The […]
A rock glacier beneath Mount Timpanogos in Utah contains about 1.5 million cubic metres of frozen water, equivalent to roughly 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to new research by University […]
An international team led by the University of Bern has found evidence that a single asteroid impact may have dramatically reshaped Deimos, the smaller and more distant of Mars’ two […]
NASA scientists have found that some microbes carried into space by human explorers may be capable of surviving in sheltered, shadowed areas near the Moon’s South Pole, raising concerns about […]
US President Donald J. Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four-member Artemis II crew during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on […]
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has cleared a key milestone ahead of its planned launch, allowing teams to move into the final phase of preparations for the observatory’s journey […]
A star’s rotation speed before it encounters a black hole could explain why some recurring cosmic flares gradually become weaker, according to new research by astrophysicists at Syracuse University. When […]
The search for life on Mars and icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus may attract much of the attention in astrobiology, but scientists are also investigating a profound mystery […]
A 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck off the coast of present-day Croatia has provided new clues about ancient waterproofing techniques, with researchers finding evidence that its hull was protected with pine tar […]
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured images of a newly formed crater on the Moon created when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the lunar surface on […]