Have you ever seen Star Trek? If so, you must be familiar with characters being ‘beamed’ from one spacecraft to another, or to a planet. While Star Trek is fictional, there are some concepts presented that make sense from a scientific point of view.
Astronomers thought they knew how planets formed, but a new discovery of a massive planet around an unlikely star is giving them pause.
The space agency has signed an agreement to help develop an air- traffic- control system for Uber Elevate, the ride-hailing company's official name for the flying-car project, according to USA Today.
This new experiment is a huge example of the behavior Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance."
NASA's moon megarocket prepares for launch, a Russian spacewalk aborts, and Mars explorers may harvest oxygen with plasma.
Diving, swimming, flying — not a problem for the tiny, multifunctional RoboBee.
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The universe may not be expanding at an accelerating rate after all, meaning that mysterious "dark energy" might not actually exist, according to a new study.
From humanoid robots to flying armored cars, here are 10 of the coolest DARPA projects.
NASA's moon megarocket prepares for launch, a Russian spacewalk aborts, and Mars explorers may harvest oxygen with plasma.
The revelation is based on three new fossils unearthed between 2007 and 2009 from a site near Lake Turkana in Kenya - known as the 'cradle of mankind'.
What is this weird, fiery, zit-like blob?
NASA's moon megarocket prepares for launch, a Russian spacewalk aborts, and Mars explorers may harvest oxygen with plasma.
Before NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunges into Saturn in September 2017, it will begin a series of brand-new science investigations.
The finding shows that oxygen can be generated in space without the need for life, and could influence how researchers search for signs of life on exoplanets.
A strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.
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In February of 2014, NASA put out the call for submissions for the thirteenth mission of their Discovery Program. In keeping with the program’s goal of mounting low-cost, highly focused missions to explore the Solar System, the latest program is focused on missions that look beyond Mars to new research goals. On September 30th, 2015, … Continue reading "The Next Generation of Exploration: The NEOCam Mission"
Here are Space.com's top 10 favorite space science stories of 2017.
Last week, Stephen Hawking declared "there are no black holes." What exactly that means has physicists scratching their heads. The problem is 40 years of paradoxes as scientists try to understand how black holes seem to break two rules of physics.
There are ways to report on occasional close approaches by near-Earth objects (NEOs) that convey the respectful awareness of their presences and the fact that our planet shares its neighborhood with many other objects, large and small… and that sometimes their paths around the Sun bring them unnervingly close to our own. Then there’s just straight-up over-sensationalism intended … Continue reading "No, a Giant Asteroid Isn’t Going to “Skim” Earth on Friday"
How did this beautiful gas planet get its stunning rings?
No, it's not an alien, but we may have just been visited by something that originated beyond our solar system. For the first time, astronomers have observed something passing through our solar system that has likely travelled light years to get here.
