Soon after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s science group revealed that the asteroid might very well be active, or persistently discharging particles into space. The ongoing examination of Bennu—and its pattern that […]
Traveling to the Moon is tough, and sending crewed spacecraft to different planets can be even tougher. One of many main challenges in deep space travel is the query of power, since, at present, spacecraft need to take all their […]
NASA has started a call for companies to hitch the ranks of its nine current Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) suppliers, a bunch it chose in November after an identical solicitation for proposals. With the CLPS program, NASA is purchasing space aboard future […]
Skywatchers can catch 2 separate meteor showers that can be peaking on Monday evening into early Tuesday. If climate situations allow, and relying on your location, individuals might even see around 25 meteors per hour due to the dueling meteor […]
An unimaginable new animation from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency exhibits the Hayabusa2 spacecraft completing its second touchdown operation, on July 11. The animation, which performs at 10 times the precise speed of the landing, illustrates the spacecraft touching down on, after […]
Within the New Zealand forest, a tree stump retains itself alive by holding onto the roots of its neighboring trees, exchanging water and sources via the grafted root system. The new analysis, publishing on July 25 in iScience, details how […]
At CNET, we’re huge followers of seeing cosmic phenomena locked in dizzying dances of doom. When two large objects change into binding by one another’s gravity, they are often locked right into a spiral, circling one another till they merge or […]
Nickelodeon’s green slime will quickly ooze its way onto the International Space Station. In the name of STEM education, the kids’ tv network is launching a publicity campaign that features putting a bundle of slime in a SpaceX Dragon capsule and flying it to the orbiting […]
Sharks are identified to stalk and sniff out prey before they attack. However, all this newly found shark species has to do is glow at nighttime, and the prey comes to them. The 5 inch American Pocket Shark is the first […]
In the past 50 years, human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. Some 650 million individuals around the globe watched the historic landing on July 20, 1969, and heard astronaut Neil Armstrong say “… one small step […]