China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s, a mission underscoring Chinese ambitions in space.
What started as routine wildlife assistance took an extraterrestrial turn for Utah’s Department of Public Safety after officers stumbled upon a mysterious monolith in the middle of rural Utah.
The flight could foreshadow a future where human pilots share the skies with artificial intelligence.
In a reply to a tweet, Elon Musk said we will need to live in glass domes before terraforming Mars.
China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than 40 years—an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system more generally.
As ancient remains are uncovered and dated, archeologists expand their search for the evolutionary birthplace of Homo sapiens, and debate whether such a place exists.
The green streaks only last for 30 seconds, then vanish. What are they?
The meteor was green, but the footage capturing it was black and white.
NASA has published a photo of a distant ‘cinnamon bun’ in space, one made of stars and gas dust collected together in an unusual way. The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which observed the faint galaxy where it is located way over in the Andromeda constellation. Despite its appearance, NASA says the ‘cinnamon bun’ is a spiral galaxy.
The process, which takes four hours on average, helps explain why Mars loses water so fast
