The administration announced Thursday the start of the next phase of testing for NASA's Artemis manned mission, which aims to return humans to the moon and will serve as a foundation for travel to Mars. Once the primary testing phase…
NASA researchers have found evidence that could help shed light on questions surrounding the history of water loss on Mars. A new study, following years of observations by NASA's Mars Atmospheric Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, shows evidence of a leaky…
China launched its Tianwen-2 space mission on Wednesday, which aims to collect asteroid samples and study main-belt comets. The LongMarch 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 3B Y110 rocket is heading to the…
SpaceX flew Starship for the ninth time on Tuesday, but lost contact an hour later as the spacecraft broke apart during reentry and the first stage of the super-heavy booster exploded before splashing down in the Indian Ocean on its…
A unique section of the new COSMOS map, showing the impressive diversity of galaxies collected in JWST's recent survey of the sky. (Image credit: M. Franco Casey/COSMOS-Web collaboration) Researchers have unveiled the most extensive map of the universe ever created.…
There is no single “best sniffer” in the animal kingdom, but one contender is the Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus, a species of African pouched rat), which can learn to sniff out landmines and has been used to diagnose tuberculosis…