WASHINGTON — New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch. NASA said Dec. 9 that it lost contact with
WASHINGTON — New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch. NASA said Dec. 9 that it lost contact with
How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of
View larger. | This image, taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows a glacier on Mars flowing downhill between 2 ridges. A new study says glaciers on Mars are
Russia is preparing to loft a “miniature mouse hotel” into space. An inside view of the rodent-holding unit. (Image credit: Roscosmos) The Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite is being readied for
A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar
(a) Galileo Solid State Imaging (SSI) false color data of Europa’s leading hemisphere and Tara Regio (credit: NASA, JPL/Caltech, PIA01295). (b) Illustration of chaos on Europa (credit: NASA, GSFC, PIA00840),
We usually think of satellites as small objects orbiting planets or stars. But in the broader universe, galaxies themselves can have satellites—smaller galaxies bound by gravity that orbit a larger
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is courting the Pentagon’s attention with a number of space technologies it says could support Golden Dome for America, the Defense Department’s
Snapshots maps of horizontal winds 10 m above the local surface (m s−1 ) at midday (left) and midnight (right) in the centre of the Equatorial (top) and Polar (bottom)
Scheme of MISO bacteria on an iron(III) oxide mineral particle. Credit Alexander Loy An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Marc Mussmann and Alexander Loy from the University of






