In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 feet, with trunks nearly 3 feet wide.
These…
In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 feet, with trunks nearly 3 feet wide.
These…
The European Space Agency has kicked off a competition to support the development of new launch vehicles and boost Europe’s access to space.
The agency issued the call for proposals for the European Launcher Challenge (ELC) on Monday, March 24….
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this amazing space telescope.
Gaia has been…
Name: Asian hermit spider (Nephilengys malabarensis)
Where it lives: South, Southeast and East Asia (including India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, China, Japan and Indonesia)
What it eats: Moths, beetles, flies, crickets and other small insects
Why…
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On Episode 154 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space TV director Liam Kennedy about bringing content and video from the…
The hits just keep coming for the International Space Station (ISS), literally in the case of a resupply mission scheduled for June that is now scrubbed thanks to a heavy equipment incident that damaged the cargo spacecraft. The shipping…
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The Shenzhou-19 crew recently conducted their third spacewalk this month as the China National Space Administration announced it is open to including international scientific payloads aboard a forthcoming Mars mission. Meanwhile, bold…
Scientists, with the help of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, found a strange object on the Red Planet. The object looks like a cluster of hundreds of spider eggs. In a statement, the US-based space agency said that last week,…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has made another remarkable discovery on Mars – the largest organic compounds ever detected on the Red Planet.
These molecules, discovered in a rock sample drilled in 2013, offer fresh insights into the potential of…
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current may be moving 20% slower by 2050, according to research described in The Conversation.
Surrounding Antarctica in a ring, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current in the…