New Horizons discovers clouds in Pluto, aims at next target
The New Frontiers program keeps finding new things in our cosmos. NASA scientists have received a new batch of data from the New Horizons...
See the Snow Moon, a penumbral eclipse & comet 45P on...
Those who enjoy watching the various events that take place in the night sky will have quite a party on Friday night when a...
NASA: Get ready for the August 21 total solar eclipse
On Thursday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the partial solar eclipse that was visible in the United States that afternoon. Millions of people...
All you need to know about January’s Super Blue Blood Moon
On January 31st, 2018, sky-watchers, moon aficionados and enthusiasts will be in for a rare spectacle that has been given the name of “Super...
This Lithium-Ion battery has a built in fire extinguisher
A research team from Stanford University released a document detailing their experiments with the flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (or TPP). They plan to include...
Rare Children Disease Found In Fossil of Dinosaur That Existed 80...
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports has found a rare disease that mostly affects children in the fossils of a dinosaur that existed 66...
NASA’s Peggy Whitson arrives at ISS, becomes oldest female astronaut
On Saturday, the Soyuz capsule carrying the astronauts Oleg Novitskiy, Thomas Pesquet, and Peggy Whitson arrived and docked at the International Space Station. With...
Meet Salto, the robot that jumps like a ninja
Duncan Haldane and a team of roboticists at Ron Fearing’s Biomimetic Milisystems Lab in UC Berkeley published a paper on Tuesday on Salto, the...
Chinese space station Tiangong-1 could reenter Earth on April Fool’s
According to the European Space Agency, the first Chinese space station Tiangong 1 will be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere sometime between March 30 and April...
SpaceX Postpones Launch of 60 Satellites for 24 Hours for Rocket...
SpaceX has delayed the launch of 60 Starlink satellites for 24 hours in order to take a second look at the rocket’s valve component....