For many years, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system until, on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to make a close approach to it and capture breathtaking images of…
It was not obvious why the woman and her partner were unable to become parents, but a series of allergy tests pointed to a possible cause. (Image credit: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Patient: 29-year-old woman from Lithuania.…
Former NASA nominee Jared Isaacman has contributed $15 million to support construction of the Inspiration4Skills training complex at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Inspiration4 training facility at the Space and Rocket Center is named after…
Scientists suggest that an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month may be one of the oldest astronomers have ever encountered. Researchers from the University of Oxford noted that comet 3I/ATLAS could be an order of 3 billion years older than…
The Anders Earthrise crater, featured in the famous image, has helped the European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft improve its tools for searching for extraterrestrial life. (Image credit: Earthrise image: NASA, annotation added by ESA; RIME radargram: ESA/Juice/RIME) The lunar crater…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected thick layers of dust in the Cat's Claw Nebula, a star-forming region located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the agency reported. “It's a cat's meow,” NASA said in a press…