As part of NASA's planetary defense strategy, a space probe called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was successfully directed to impact its
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 jointly to Alain Aspect of the University of Paris-Saclay
When the International Space Station (ISS) will be out of service in 2030, cosmic laboratories in low Earth orbit will not remain
After analyzing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission, scientists reported that water, the source of life on Earth, may
Scientists have recorded the Earth's shortest day since they began using atomic clocks that provide high precision. On June 29, 2022, Earth
Scientists from Stanford University have developed a new kind of robot that can explore the mysterious depths of the ocean. The robot’s
After decades of delays and billions of dollars over budget, NASA has officially released the first scientific photographs of the James Webb
New findings suggest that Jupiter's innards are filled with the remnants of baby planets the gas giant literally “swallowed” as it expanded
Neptune and its neighbour Uranus are ice giants, unlike the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. We may think of Uranus and Neptune as
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have detected a new type of stellar explosion. These thermonuclear bursts, called micronovae, take place
