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Members of NASA's Artemis program revealed just how challenging space exploration can be in the latest video released by the agency. According to the program's team members, the risk of death is always present due to the harsh conditions of space.

The equatorial dunes on Saturn's moon Titan are among the most dramatic surface features in the Solar System, but scientists aren't exactly sure how they formed. New experimental evidence suggests the dunes arose as a result of cosmic rays hitting Titan's ...

NASA is currently monitoring a group of asteroids that are headed for Earth. One of the approaching asteroids is large enough to wipe out a major city if it hits the planet. According to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the first asteroid that ...

Cancer researchers from the UK and US are teaming up to search for the very earliest signs of cancer.

Doctor Libby Hausrath is an associate porfessor of Geo-Science at UNLV. As of two weeks ago, she's also a NASA scientist. Her mission? To find out if there was ever life on Mars. Rocks on the Red Planet may have the answer; good thing Dr. Hausrath is an ...

In nature, many animals mimic others, for a variety of purposes. Now scientists have uncovered the latest example of this peculiar ability—finding that the Congolese giant toad mimics the appearance and behavior of the venomous Gaboon viper to avoid ...

A still from a video shows a fireball passing over Kyoto, Japan after 1 a.m. on April 28, 2017. (Image: © SonataCo Network). In the early morning of April 28, 2017, a small fireball crept across the sky over Kyoto, Japan. And now, thanks to data collected by the ...

A man was critically wounded Sunday morning after he was shot during an argument, police say. Two people were arguing about 1:30 a.m. at Garrison Street and Ann Arbor Avenue in east Oak Cliff, when one person shot the other, police said. The man was ...

It was an inspiring evening as the National Space Club Florida Committee held its 2019 Celebrate Space Awards Oct. 19 at the Radisson Resort at the Port in Cape Canaveral, Florida. BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – It was an inspiring ...

Are there other Earth-like planets out there in the cosmos? We simply don't know. Scientists have been peering into space for centuries and, thanks to advancing technology, we have spotted other worlds that might be capable of supporting life, but the ...

Things were looking grim for NASA's Mars InSight mission back at the beginning of October. But now, things seem to have turned around. The InSight lander had originally been sent to the Red Planet with the goal of drilling some 16 feet into the Martian ...

A new report has called for NASA to update its rules preventing the spread of viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms to other planets in the course of space exploration. The report was written by the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best pictures yet of our newest interstellar visitor. This comet from outside our solar system is zooming by us at a blistering 110,000 mph (177,000 kph). Hubble caught some glam shots over the weekend from a ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 20:Scientists have found the chemical composition of organic dust dunes present on Saturn's moon Titan, an advance that sheds more light on the mechanism by which carbon-based structures form in extreme cold environments in space.

EDMONTON -- Edmontonians can get a glimpse of the annual Orionid meteor shower when it peaks this week, a local astronomical society says. The meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through debris left by Halley's Comet. The result is a dazzling ...

An upcoming mission will travel within a few million miles of the sun to collect data on how our star affects the whole solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) is working together with NASA to create the Solar Orbiter, a tool for exploring the star at the ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured intriguing images of the vast Tycho supernova remnant, first noted in 1572 when the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe reported a bright “new” star in the constellation Cassiopeia. The new star was actually a Type ...

Posted on Oct 20, 2019 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Featured Articles, News, Science, Space, Technology. . “I don't see extraterrestrials as more speculative than dark matter or extra dimensions,” says Harvard's Avi Loeb, who has spent much of his ...

Mars once had salt lakes that went through wet and dry phases similar to those on the Earth, according to a study which indicates that the red planet's climate 'dried out' over a long time. According to the researchers, including those from Texas A&M University ...

It wasn't that long ago that the idea of having a single functioning machine on Mars was little more than a dream for scientists. Today, NASA has a whole bunch of hardware on and around the Red Planet, and sometimes they catch a glimpse of one another as ...