Their research could be crucial for future crewed missions to the moon.
The Expedition 67 crew split up today with the astronauts studying wound healing techniques and the cosmonauts preparing for a spacewalk to prepare a new robotic arm for operations.
The giant Space Launch System is getting an early start ahead of its lunar journey, which is scheduled to start on Aug. 29.
President Biden signed a major climate, tax and health care package into law. Meanwhile, states in the West failed to reach a water-sharing agreement. This is Overnight Energy & Environm…
The particles taken from Ryugu, an asteroid potentially hazardous to Earth, are said to be "pristine."
The rocket will traverse four miles in about 11 hours.
Violent ripples reverberating across spacetime might finally reveal how quickly our universe is expanding.
Asteroids from the outer Solar System may have brought the building blocks of life to Earth. New research has revealed important new clues as to how the inner Solar System, including Earth, acquired its water and organic-rich components – the essential building blocks for all life. The Kochi T
Artemis I is the first in a series of planned launches aimed at returning humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era.
BioSentinel will launch on NASA's historic Artemis I moon mission.
This week's final rollout for the SLS rocket and Orion capsule marks a new NASA era.
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, ushering in a new decade of $370 billion in climate and energy spending.
To boldly go where no yeast has gone before.
The rocket may launch just two weeks from now.
The Russian space agency has threatened to pull out of the ISS in retaliation to western-imposed sanctions.
The historic Inflation Reduction Act has passed, so, now what? We break down what’s in the bill and how it will affect you, your family and the planet.
President Joe Biden will sign a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday -- marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.
The president returned briefly from vacation to sign a bill that passed the House and Senate on party lines after more than a year of fraught negotiations.
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, ushering in a new decade of $370 billion in climate and energy spending.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the Democrats' massive climate, health and tax bill into law, marking a major accomplishment for his domestic agenda less than three months before midterm elections. Speaking from the White House's State Dining Room, Biden touted the Inflation Reduction Act as "further proof that the soul of America is vibrant, the future of America is bright and the promise of America is real and just beginning." Taking advantage of some political momentum, Biden interrupted his summer vacation for the signing just days after the House approved the measure, following Senate passage by just one vote…
A Trump Organization official will plead guilty. A Trump attorney may face state charges.
With his empire crumbling at the seams, will the former President finally get what he deserves?
Donald Trump has yet another legal trouble, this time in the world of golf. The 45th POTUS may even face prison time if found guilty.
Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly come under legal and financial scrutiny over the years -- only to eventually escape accountability.But as Trump family biographer Gwenda Blair writes in an essay for Politico, he will likely not be as lucky when it comes to evading legal consequences for ...
Former President Donald Trump's legal woes grew on multiple major fronts to kick off the work week, culminating in a post-midnight tantrum on his Twitter-themed Truth Social app.
American spaceman Kjell Lindgren says the encounter "may be my favourite so far".
“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” head writer Jessica Gao explains tackling Marvel’s first outright TV comedy — and challenging CGI.
Here's what critics are saying about She-Hulk's first four episodes...
New insights from black hole research may elucidate the cosmological event horizon
Separate research suggests the space rock formed in the outer solar system.
The verdict is in: The new Marvel/Disney+ series makes a compelling case.
Stars Tatiana Maslany, Mark Ruffalo, Jameela Jamil, and Renée Elise Goldsberry walked the red carpet in LA before the premiere on Disney+ on Thursday.
With She-Hulk set to make her MCU debut on Disney+, catch up on the character’s comics history and examine what sets Marvel’s new series apart
"She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" star Tatiana Maslany fired back at the "reductive" label of being a "strong female lead" on TV.
Does the Moon fascinate you? Earth has only one Moon- a rocky, cratered place, roughly a quarter the size of our planet and an average of 2,38,855 miles away. Here are some of the interesting facts you need to know about the Moon.
The Russians are threatening to pull out of the International Space Station. Here’s what they might replace it with.
Much of the matter in the universe remains unknown and undefined, yet theoretical physicists continue to gain clues to the properties of dark matter and black holes. A study by a team of scientists including ...
She-Hulk producer Kat Coiro avoided confirming whether Netflix's Daredevil show is canon to the MCU.
Tiny crystals of zircon could be geological evidence that the continents were born at meteor impact sites.
What created the continents on Earth? New evidence points to giant asteroids
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New research suggests the seven continents were created by giant meteorite impacts—similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. They happened more than three-and-a-half billion years ago, before life on Earth began— so the discovery sheds fresh light on evolution. Scientists analyzed a mineral called zircon, the microscopic grains of which act like a ‘geological […]
Scientists studying ancient minerals in Western Australia found tantalizing clues suggesting the giant impact hypothesis might be right.
Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these "outliers" might be the most common planet of all.
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear—but scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe.
University of Chicago astronomers propose ‘spectral siren’ method to understand evolution of the universe. A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear. However, scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe. Two Universit
Scientists think that when dark photons collect around black holes, they can get trapped and boosted to high energies, where they might transform into other particles (or even just normal photons).
NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket emerged from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center around 10 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0200 GMT Wednesday) for an overnight ride to launch pad 39B. The more than 30-story-tall moon rocket is set for launch Aug. 29 on its inaugural test flight carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft around the moon.
NASA plans to begin moving the first Space Launch System moon rocket to its launch pad in Florida Tuesday night after completing tests of the rocket's flight termination system and winning an extension from range safety officials to certify the destruct mechanism's batteries throughout the mission's upcoming launch period.
A reusable Chinese spacecraft that may resemble the U.S. military's X-37B spaceplane has logged 10 days in orbit since its Aug. 4 launch, but what it's doing remains a mystery.
SpaceX launched 46 more Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, adding more broadband relay platforms to the polar-orbiting segment of the network.
Another batch of 46 Starlink internet satellites soared into space Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California occurred at 2:40 p.m. PDT (5:40 p.m. EDT; 2140 GMT). The Falcon 9's reusable first stage landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with 46 Starlink internet satellites into polar orbit Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing deployment of the company's commercial broadband network.
The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Aug. 4 occurred 12 hours and 39 minutes after the liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the shortest turnaround between two orbital-class missions at the Florida spaceport since Sept. 7 and 8, 1967.
Fifty-two satellites are on the way to join SpaceX’s Starlink internet network after a sky-lighting blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday night, a mission that included the 3,000th spacecraft to launch for the Starlink constellation.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and 52 more Starlink internet satellites Tuesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The commercial mission took off bound for low Earth orbit at 10:14 p.m. EDT (0214 GMT), and the Falcon 9's reusable first stage landed on an offshore drone ship. The launch team bypassed a launch opportunity earlier Tuesday evening due to unfavorable upper level winds.
SpaceX continues to launch Falcon 9 rockets from Launch Complex 39A in Florida as construction work advances on the nearby tower for the company's next-generation Starship rocket. Overnight Tuesday, SpaceX rolled another Falcon 9 to pad 39A for liftoff with the next batch of Starlink internet satellites, just hours after another section of the Starship gantry tower arrived at the pad.
See the latest news about NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission here.
You can watch NASA's Artemis 1 SLS megarocket roll to the launch pad for a moon mission at 3 p.m. EDT on Aug. 16.
The world's largest airline has agreed to buy 20 Boom Supersonic Overture jets, expected to carry passengers at twice the speeds of conventional passenger aircraft.
Scientists will study the effects of radiation on yeast in preparation for long-duration crewed missions to deep space.
Ancient grains of dust that are older than the solar system itself have been found in samples from asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft nearly two years ago.
A powerful and spectacular cosmic dance that began a billion years ago will lead to a collision and merger between two galaxies and the supermassive black holes at their hearts.
Scientists studied the trajectory and debris field of asteroid 2008 TC3 to determine which specific parts of the space rock made it down to the Earth's surface.
A Chinese X-ray telescope has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded by making observations of a rapidly-spinning neutron star, or magnetar.
The sun has spat out two clouds of plasma in the past two days, which might trigger beautiful aurora displays observable as far south as New York later this week.
Artemis 1 is the first stage of the Artemis program designed to return astronauts to the moon. The uncrewed mission will travel to the moon and back.