Science

Last year NASA established a ambitious goal: Send astronauts to walk on the moon in 2024. Now, the agency is busy planning what astronauts will do during those excursions. NASA has not landed humans on another world in nearly 50 years, not since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain Have you ever wondered what a sunset would be like on Uranus? As you can see in the animation above, a Urania sunset is a deep blue that fades into royal blue with hints of turquoise. This greenish blue color comes from the interaction …

The Moon may be Earth’s closest cosmic neighbor, and the only extraterrestrial body humans have ever trod on, but there are many things we don’t understand. And one of the biggest mysteries is why its two sides are so significantly different. The researchers have proposed a possible new explanation, backed …

Dream City Church in Phoenix, where President Donald Trump will attend a rally on Tuesday, made a surprising claim Sunday: His building has an air filtration system that could neutralize the coronavirus. Many experts found this surprising, because there is little evidence that such systems can stop the spread of …

Image copyright NASA / JPL-Caltech On July 20, NASA will have its first opportunity to launch the Perseverance rover to Mars. Here, we answer some common questions about the mission. What will the rover do? The Perseverance rover will land on Mars to look for signs of past microbial life, …