Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests (www.space.com)
Intriguing 'autocatalytic' reactions appear to be far more common than scientists had thought.
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Intriguing 'autocatalytic' reactions appear to be far more common than scientists had thought.
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
The German project aims to explore beneath Earthly ice as a test for space exploration.
The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.
Scientists studied the Squid Galaxy, Messier 77, to determine how chemicals swirl around its shrouded central black hole.
OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid-sample return capsule will land in Utah on Sept. 23 at around 10 a.m. EDT
The spherical device is able to remotely gauge hazards and plan an approach for these responders before they enter areas hit by disasters like wildfires, chemical spills, crashes and potentially even war zones.
NASA is eyeing a privately built 'Apollo' space robot for continued investment — and future space missions.
The sun’s outer atmosphere is vastly hotter than its surface. Scientists may be close to figuring out why.
Triton orbits to the beat of its own drum.
"One of the main goals of what we're trying to do here today is to move conjecture and conspiracy towards science and sanity."
The acclaimed Apple TV+ alternate space history series returns on Nov. 10 with a 10 episode fourth season.
NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group wants the agency to send spacecraft to visit the asteroid Apophis before it makes a close approach to Earth in 2029.
The decadal survey has highlighted such investigations as the effects of space on biology as being key to NASA's next 10 years and to the Artemis mission.
The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis.
Astronomers have found a new way to detect one of the oldest features of our universe....
One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA's Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical.
The decade-long concerns continue. NASA needs to be more transparent about the costs and schedules associated with its Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket, a newly released audit has found.
An interesting, deliberately thought provoking 🤔 question for a lazy long weekend Sunday morning…...
The United States conducted another routine test of its nuclear deterrent system by launching an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile....
ISS inhabitants sleep strapped to the wall and experience 16 sunrises a day.