Oddly shaped celestial body Arrokoth sheds light on planet formation
A vaguely hourglass-shaped icy object called Arrokoth residing in the far reaches of the solar system – the most distant body ever explored by a...
White House calls for biggest NASA budget in decades to reach the moon, Mars
The White House on Monday asked Congress for $25.2 billion for NASA in 2021, the agency’s biggest budget in decades, calling for steady increases over...
Solar probe embarks on unprecedented mission to map sun’s polar regions
A new probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency set off on a blazing hot journey to the sun on Sunday to take...
Solar Probe set to launch on mission to map sun’s poles
NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to send a new probe toward the sun to take a unique look at its blazing...
Latest solar probe to get first close up of the sun’s polar regions
A new spacecraft built jointly by U.S. and European space agencies is ready for a blazing journey to the sun to capture an unprecedented view...
The bitter end: Last woolly mammoths plagued by genetic defects
The world’s last woolly mammoths, sequestered on an Arctic Ocean island outpost, suffered from serious genetic defects caused by generations of inbreeding that may have...
OneWeb launches 34 satellites from Kazakh cosmodrome in global internet push
The UK firm OneWeb launched 34 satellites from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Friday as part of its effort to provide global high-speed internet...
NASA astronaut Koch returns to Earth after record space mission
A capsule carrying a crew of three from the International Space Station, including record-setting United States astronaut Christina Koch, landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, a...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch returning to Earth after record space station mission
U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, was due to return to Earth on Thursday after a record stay aboard...
‘Weird,’ sharp-nosed thalattosaur species identified from Alaska fossil
An iguana-like creature with a needle-sharp snout has been confirmed from a fossilized skeleton as a species of the marine reptile thalattosaur previously unknown to...
