On Sept. 5, 1977, NASA launched a space probe named Voyager 1 into the cosmos. Nearly 45 years later, much to the delighted astonishment of astronomers throughout the world, it is still humming along as it travels far past Pluto. In fact, Voyager 1 has traveled so far that it has left the bounds of … Read more
Over the past 30 years, the space observatory has helped scientists discover and refine that accelerating rate — as well as uncover a mysterious wrinkle that only brand-new physics may solve. Hubble has observed more than 40 galaxies that include pulsating stars as well as exploding stars called supernovae to measure even greater cosmic distances. … Read more
The researchers collected samples of drywood termites from around the world. The numbers listed on this map are the number of samples collected from each area. Credit: OIST Termites are a type of cockroach that split from other cockroaches around 150 million years ago and evolved to live socially in colonies. Today, there are many … Read more
The mission kicked off Thursday evening with a Florida launch, and the Starliner — which is designed to carry astronauts but is flying without people for this test — docked with the ISS Friday night at 8:28 pm ET. The docking occurred about an hour later than expected as ground crews worked through a few … Read more
WASHINGTON — Boeing and United Launch Alliance say they remain committed to launching future CST-100 Starliner commercial crew missions on Atlas 5 rockets even after that vehicle is effectively retired for other missions. As with the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) mission in late 2019, an Atlas 5 launched Starliner on the OFT-2 mission May 19. … Read more
By Horacio Fernando Soria BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine scientists discovered a new species of a huge flying reptile dubbed “The Dragon of Death” that lived 86 millions of years ago alongside dinosaurs, in a find shedding fresh insight on a predator whose body was as long as a yellow school bus. The new specimen … Read more
Stars from colliding galaxies flow together in a newly upgraded image from NASA’s venerable space telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope has been hard at work for more than three decades, and scientists have never lost their fascination with the observatory’s vast archives. Take, for example, this “river of star formation,” NASA officials termed it in … Read more
Exiting the Solar System isn’t easy. The Voyager spacecraft, illustrated here, are two of the five spacecraft currently on trajectories that will take them out of the Solar System. Both spacecraft actually left the heliosphere behind and entered interstellar space in the 2010s, and will, when Voyager 2 passes Pioneer 10 in 2023, become the … Read more
Could sea corals be used to treat CANCER? Scientists discover a ‘holy grail’ anti-cancer chemical in common soft corals off the Florida coast The chemical, called eleutherobin, has been shown to have cytotoxic properties It was first found in a rare coral off the coast of Australia in the 1990s Since then scientists haven’t been … Read more
NASA’s 45-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft, a marvel, is cruising along outside our solar system and still staying in touch with Earth. But it’s presented its team with what NASA is calling a “mystery.” It’s operating normally but sending back some weird telemetry data. The issue likely traces to Voyager 1’s attitude articulation and control system … Read more