An Atlas 5 551 rocket stands upright at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) awaiting the launch of the USSF-51 mission. Image: Michael Caine/Spaceflight Now United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and life have interacted over the past more than 500 million years in ways that improved the conditions for early organisms to flourish.…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every clear night for the past three weeks, Bob Stevens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of…
Sea scorpions (eurypterids), extinct giant aquatic arthropods, were apex predators. New research suggests that early species of the scorpion-like, spiny-limbed carcinosomatoid eurypterids fed on trilobites, while later species favored armored…
Hunga Tonga volcano, photographed during its eruption on 14-15 January 2022 Credit: Tonga Geological Services / ZUMA Press / Zuma / RÉA (Courtesy of Dr Mark Schoeberl)Widely believed to be…
Zoom in / A Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen docked to the International Space Station in 2022. The spacecraft section on the left is the pressure capsule, while the back…
The first Boeing Starliner to fly astronauts into space performed a crucial test in space on Saturday (27 July) as the next mission faces months of delays.Tested by engineers Starlinerthe…
As Boeing's Starliner nears two months in space, teams conducted a hot-fire test of thruster performance and a helium leak from the spacecraft over the weekend to help decide when…
Example trials in Study 2. (A) is an example from the adult target set (left). (B) is an example from the child target set (right). This is a free English…
Credit: Sapphire from sediment in the Kyll, a river in the western Eifel. The diameter of the crystal is approximately 0.9 mm. Credit: Sebastian Schmidt Researchers at the University of…