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Even as Musk’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency appeared to consume him, his top adviser created a set of ...
The cheetah reigns supreme as Earth’s fastest land animal but what if you launched one into space? In this wild episode, we ...
Cats are famous for their ability to land on their feet, thanks to an extraordinary righting reflex, perfect balance, and flexible spines—a combination of biology and physics that scientists are still ...
By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...
These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...
Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...
A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.
The Solar System consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity; the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been one of NASA's most successful flagship missions, recently celebrating 35 years in space.
We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget by up to 50 percent. Certainly, the space agency needs to modernize an ...
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it!” is often misattributed to either Mr Spock or  Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy from Star Trek. The ...
Houston’s Intuitive Machines and Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace have each launched moon landers with NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...