On Wednesday morning, NASA launched DART, a spacecraft designed to smash into an asteroid to deflect its course. Mark Strassman reports on the groundbreaking planetary defense mission.
It’s not clear what Beijing was trying to accomplish.
This first-person 360° video gives a terrifying sense of what it would be like to fall into a black hole and even pass beyond its event horizon. The post 360° Video Shows What It’d Be Like to Fall Into a Black Hole appeared first on Nerdist.
The rocket will carry NASA’s first planetary defense test, which is meant to slam into the Dimorphos asteroid sometime next year.
Our cosmic neighbor, the Andromeda, is so near astronomically speaking, we can just look up and see it as a small, hazy ellipse.
The move comes after the Long Beach aerospace company tested the idea during its 22nd Electron rocket launch last week.
New photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will help scientists to track and better understand the planet's weather patterns.
NASA’s oft-delayed James Webb Space Telescope has suffered another setback.
Joachim Sauer, Chancellor Angela Merkel's academic husband, has blamed his compatriots' "laziness and complacency" for Germany's comparatively low vaccination rate, saying public rejection of science has never been as visible as now. Sauer, who until his retirement in 2017 was professor of quantum chemistry at Berlin's Humboldt University and seen as one of the field's top researchers, has been reticent to discuss politics throughout his wife's 16-year tenure.
Mauriciop Duenas/AFP via GettyThe female ocelot lay anesthetized on the exam table, behind the scenes at the Albuquerque Biopark Zoo. As a veterinarian on the team preparing to artificially inseminate this animal, my palms were sweating at the thought of missing a step, dropping the sperm sample, or finding out our sample did not survive freezing. Any of these possibilities would end the procedure.It was the first time anyone was trying to produce a pregnancy in a zoo-born female ocelot using sp
It's time for Arizona farmers and ranchers to make bold changes, if they want to survive the 'new normal' of water scarcity.
Tuesday was a miserable day to own space stocks. In 1:20 p.m. ET trading, shares of AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) are down a steep 9%, and Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) and Astra Space (NASDAQ: ASTR) aren't doing any better -- down 9.2% and 9.8%, respectively. All of a sudden it seems investors have lost interest in the final frontier.
The International Space Station is a great example of how space has, for the most part, been a peaceful and collaborative international arena. NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center/Flickr, CC BY-NCOn Nov. 15, 2021, Russia destroyed one of its own old satellites using a missile launched from the surface of the Earth, creating a massive debris cloud that threatens many space assets, including astronauts onboard the International Space Station. This happened only two weeks after the United Nations Gener
Wild ocelots hunt alone at night. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe female ocelot lay anesthetized on the exam table, behind the scenes at the Albuquerque Biopark Zoo. As a veterinarian on the team preparing to artificially inseminate this animal, my palms were sweating at the thought of missing a step, dropping the sperm sample, or finding out our sample did not survive freezing. Any of these possibilities would end the procedure. It was the first time anyone was trying to produc
When astronaut Dr. Jessica Watkins makes her first trip to space she will have reached a dream-like career milestone, but that is not all. Next […]
Beyond superstition: The matalafi plant, which has been used for generations in Samoan culture as a remedy for a variety of illnesses, can produce anti-inflammatory effects similar to ibuprofen, a new study spearheaded by an Indigenous Samoan scientist suggests, according to The Guardian. Samoans have long used the leaves of the matalafi to treat inflammation that result in fevers, body aches and illnesses which traditional healers have attributed to supernatural causes. After conducting experiments on the plant’s extracts, the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa concluded that the plant reduces inflammation just as effectively as the popular anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen.
Skeletal remains found 13 years ago in southeastern Fond du Lac County have been identified as Amy Marie Yeary, a Rockford, Illinois, woman.
Want to party like it’s 1997? Well, you’re in luck, as a dedicated group of Zelda fans recently wrapped on a project that’s all about recreating what it felt like to play Ocarina of Time at a Nintendo event in the late 90s before it was officially released.
Engineers encounter a problem as they prepare to attach the $10bn Hubble successor to its rocket.
Medicine has made strides understanding rare genetic diseases but many patients, often children, face a diagnostic odyssey to find out what is wrong.
NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. (Nov. 24)
