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Rocket Lab delays 1st US launch due to unacceptably high winds

Update for Dec. 19: Rocket Lab has called off its Dec. 19 Electron launch attempt from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia due to high upper-level winds, the second time in a row. The next launch date is under review as wind conditions allow, Rocket ...

Meteoroid strike may have caused Soyuz spacecraft leak, Russian state news reports

The Russian space agency will decide by the end of December whether to fly a space station crew back to Earth in a damaged Soyuz spacecraft. The Russian federal space agency Roscosmos stressed there is no immediate danger regarding the damaged Soyuz ...

Hole spotted in leaky Russian Soyuz spacecraft

The leaky Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) has a small hole in it, an inspection has found. The Soyuz's coolant leaked away on Wednesday night (Dec. 14), as two cosmonauts were getting ready to perform a ...

Something weird is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, 40-year study shows

Forty years' worth of measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere by spacecraft and ground-based telescopes have revealed strange weather patterns on the largest planet of the solar system, including hot and cold periods during its long year (equivalent to 12 ...

Doom-spiraling exoplanet will someday meet fiery demise

Like a golf ball circling a hole, the planet Kepler-1658b is getting closer and closer to falling in — into its star, that is. Scientists observing the exoplanet have noticed its orbital period around its mature or "evolved" parent star is shrinking ...

Underground Italian lab searches for signals of quantum gravity

In school chemistry lessons, we are taught that electrons can only arrange themselves in certain specific ways in atoms, which turns out to be due to the Pauli exclusion principle. At the center of the atom there is the atomic nucleus, surrounded by ...

Scientists trace fireball to strange rocky meteoroid from the edge of the solar system

A rocky meteoroid that exploded over Canada last year was more extraordinary than it first seemed: it originated from the outer solar system, where scientists thought only icy bodies exist. A cavalcade of both professional and amateur astronomers ...

NASA's InSight lander just recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever

A Marsquake detected by NASA's InSight lander in May this year was at least five times larger than the next largest seismic event recorded on the planet. The quake occurred on May 4 and registered at ...

Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into the evolution of our solar system

The team also studied the asteroid grains using an electron microscope at Diamond's electron Physical Science Imaging Center (ePSIC). Julia Parker is the principal beamline scientist for I14 at Diamond. She said, "The ...

The Washington Post

NASA says wind could power human missions on Mars

The Washington Post

Turbines that harness Mars' wind could help power human exploration missions, and open up parts of the planet for discovery where other sorts of power, such as solar or nuclear, can't fully work, scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center in California ...