Category: 1. Edi-Choice

For this week’s historical Friday feature, we are traveling to space to recap remarkable video and photographs…

What do we have in common with fish, besides being vertebrates? The types of joints we (and most vertebrates) share most likely originated from the same common ancestor. But it’s not a…

NASA is preparing for the launch of its fifth New Frontiers mission, NF-5, aimed at exploring high-priority scientific targets across the solar system. Expected to be formally announced no earlier than 2026, this next phase of the agency’s…

After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners, Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is…

An ancient impact site in a remote corner of northern Australia was recently spotted by Earth-observing satellites monitoring our planet’s resources.

The images, captured in early February by the Operational Land…

Saturn has always commanded a sense of wonder. Its famous rings glimmer in countless images, but experts say there is more going on than meets the eye. In a surprising twist, astronomers have announced that Saturn boasts 274 known…

The “cosmic pinwheel” that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once thought, a new study suggests.

At the heart of the pinwheel lies a pair of massive, hot stars locked in a binary…

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• The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth?

• A new study…

The next stop for NASA’s asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old.

Lucy will fly past the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) asteroid on April…