NASA scientists have used data from the Galileo mission and Hubble Space Telescope to create a model of the ocean on Europa.
Experts have long speculated that the waters of Europa may be habitable and a new study has finally added weight to the theory, discovering that the moon’s waters...
Humanity has found itself within another global pandemic, one involving a respiratory virus that can be easily transmitted from a surface to its next victim simply by touching one’s own face. There’s an obvious preventative method to avoid this issue, which is that you shouldn’t touch your face, at...
NASA said Tuesday it may fly NASA astronauts, engineers, scientists, operators and trainers on suborbital vehicles owned by commercial companies.
NASA's Flight Opportunities program has successfully worked with emerging commercial suborbital transportation systems to fly research payloads to space for short periods of microgravity time. In addition, the Flight Opportunities...
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy has been experimentally verified for the first time in a Glasgow research lab.
In 1969, British physicist Roger Penrose suggested that energy could be generated by lowering an object into...
Exposure to wildfire smoke affects the body’s respiratory and cardiovascular systems almost immediately, according to new research from the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health.
In a study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers found that exposure to elevated levels of fine particulate matter during...
A Russian and German telescope has completed its first full sweep of the sky — and it's provided some breathtaking images to mark the occasion. A new map, roughly four times the depth of its predecessor, captures what the universe looks like through X-ray vision.
The eRosita instrument, mounted...
Aspiring space tourists, pack your bags and get your checkbooks ready. Spaceship Perspective has announced the Spaceship Neptune, a balloon-borne capsule that will be taking tourists to the edge of space.
The space tourism market continues to grow, with Space Perspective announcing its plan to use its access to NASA...
To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their excellent color vision.
“Humans are color-blind compared to birds and many other animals,” said Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor in the Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Humans have three types of...
A new study describes how the mission became the first to make a fifth state of matter in Earth orbit, and the advantages of studying atoms in space.
This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids,...
