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Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air, and sea. Marina Koren 1:44 PM ET Barry Wilmore / NASAFrom inside her living room in London, Paula Koelemeijer can feel the world around her growing quieter.Koelemeijer, a seismologist, has a miniature seismometer sitting on a concrete slab at the base of her first-floor…

In 2009, NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the first mission to be sent by the US to the Moon in over a decade. Once there, the LRO conducted observations that led to some profound discoveries. For instance, in a series of permanently-shaded craters around the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, the probe confirmed the…

Home News Science & Astronomy The crew of Expedition 62 to the International Space Station is pictured inside a SpaceX Dragon resupply craft, on March 9, 2020. They are wearing portable breathing gear while entering the spacecraft just in case there are any particles or irritants in the air that could have come loose while…

HAWC’s water tanks dotting the side of the Sierra Negra.Photo: Ryan F. MandelbaumNew measurements from an experiment near the top of an extinct Mexican volcano have placed a stringent new limit on whether light can exceed the universe’s well-known top speed.Physicists have crafted theories that do a good job explaining much of the universe—but these theories…

When Space X's Crew Dragon craft carries its first complement of astronauts to the International Space Station later this year, it will do so with NASA's iconic "worm" logo emblazoned on the side of its Falcon 9 rocket. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine shared the news over Twitter, saying the symbol will mark the "return of human spaceflight…

Currently, live views from the International Space Station (ISS) are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node…

Skip to content Comet expected to zoom past Earth By: Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Updated: April 2, 2020 - 5:37 PM A sky show may be just the thing we need in a few weeks and Comet Atlas is expected to deliver. A tail is starting to develop on the comet,…

Each white sphere represents the position of a platinum atom. Credit: IBS What do you see in the picture above? Merely a precisely-drawn three-dimensional picture of nanoparticles? Far more than that, nanotechnologists will say, due to a new study published in the journal Science. Whether a material catalyzes chemical reactions or impedes any molecular response…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX will fill its new Starship prototype with liquid nitrogen and light its engines during a series of important tests this week.Starship SN3 (which stands for Serial No. 3), the company's third full-scale Starship prototype, rolled out to a launch pad at SpaceX's South Texas facilities near Boca Chica earlier this week. Today…

The earliest known skull of Homo erectus has been unearthed by an Australian-led team of researchers who have dated the fossil at two million years old, showing the first of our ancestors existed up to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. The lead …

An intoxicated Bethlehem woman coughed on a city police officer after calling authorities to have her boyfriend removed from her home because she was worried he’d been infected with the coronavirus, according to court papers. Alexandra Nicole Detrick, 25, of the 300 block of East Ettwein Street, faces charges of terroristic threats, simple assault, disorderly…

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In 2013, scientists were stunned to find microbes thriving deep inside volcanic rocks beneath the seafloor off the Pacific Northwest, buried under more than 870 feet of sediment. The rocks were on the flank of the volcanic rift where they were born, and they were still young and hot enough to drive intense chemical reactions…

LOWELL, MA — A discovery by a team of researchers led by University of Massachusetts Lowell nuclear physicists could change how atoms are understood by scientists and help explain extreme phenomena in outer space.The breakthrough by the researchers revealed that a symmetry that exists within the core of the atom is not as fundamental as…