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Astronauts, apart from living happy lives back on Earth after the fact, should be spending most of their time either in space or communicating science to the masses – or both. They should not have to…
Juno has been added to this image. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © CC BY Yes, it’s that time again people. Time to look at the latest processed images of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno spacecraf…
ncannily like a skull that first passed our planet at 78,000mph (125,500km/h) at a distance of 310,000 miles (499,000km) on October 31, 2015, just in time for Halloween (artist's impression) Ear…
Roads of the future could be lit by glowing trees instead of streetlamps, thanks to a breakthrough in creating bioluminescent plants. Experts injected specialized nanoparticles into the leaves of a w…
Practical quantum computing has been big news this year, with significant advances being made on theoretical and technical frontiers. But one big stumbling block has remained – melding the delicate q…
Broadband is to be beamed to every corner of the earth from space following the biggest rocket campaign in the history of spaceflight. The network will comprise at least 600 spacecraft in the first i…
A 60-year-old mystery regarding the source of some energetic and potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts is now solved using data from a shoebox-sized satellite built and operat…
While NASA is mostly known for studying the outer reaches of our solar system, it's trained countless satellites on Earth, giving scientists a cornucopia of data about our changing planet. But so…
