An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel is packing as much equipment as possible into a single rocket to reduce
Oil-consuming microbes have been discovered in the deepest part of the oceans of Earth - the Mariana Trench. A comprehensive assessment of the microbial li
Last Saturday, the County of San Diego Communications Office reported four pediatric cases of E. coli linked to contact with animals at the San Diego Count
The Kuiper Belt is a vastly-unexplored region of the solar system filled with Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), and NASA expects to learn more about these object
So, how's it going up there? Scott Kelly, NASA astronaut, identical twin and current International Space Station resident is three months into his year lon
With mining spatial bodies, such as asteroids, now deemed legal by congress, and with no restrictions or regulations being put on the earnings (apart from
A lot of excitement has been created by the study of a tiny zircon crystal that measures approximately two times the diameter of a human hair. While it isn
It's taken more than 100 days since its launch, but NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, (referred to as the DSCOVR satellite) has reached its final orbi
It may have been stripped of its status as a full-fledged planet, but that doesn't mean scientists have lost interest in Pluto. NASA's New Horizons space p
Utilizing what NASA calls the Cygnus spacecraft, the United States-based space agency wanted to learn a little more about how ignition and fire will behave
Earth is the oddball in our Solar System because it supports life. There has, to date, not been any evidence of intelligent life forms anywhere else in our
Astronauts are on average highly educated and have access to top-notch medical care. Their health outcomes are subsequently usually better than the general
Russia is now studying how long-term space travel may impact human behavior and health. Six people, including three men and three women, have been locked a
Nanobacteria were proposed to be, as the name suggests, nano-sized bacteria. Researchers tend to agree that cells must be larger than 200 nm in diameter to
Last month, SpaceX announced their plans to take the SES-9 communications satellite into space with a reusable Falcon 9 rocket. After it would blast of
Research published in Frontiers in Marine Science paper describes the discovery of a soft coral garden in the waters off of west Greenland. As the first of
NASA is no stranger to autonomous rovers. To date, the American space agency has sent four rovers to the Martian surface in the name of science, and it wil
When a small or medium-sized star reaches the end of its life, it becomes a white dwarf. Suns produce energy by fusing hydrogen to create helium. When it r
Blockchain is a database of information shared across a network. They're known in cryptocurrency systems like Bitcoin. Blockchain technology has the po
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