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Spacecraft instruments switched off after COVID-19 outbreak forces mission control to send workers home ESA will pause on-board operations of its spacecraft exploring our Solar System after sending its mission control center staff home to help contain the

NASA is preparing to hand off to the private sector much of the work of communicating with spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit. SpaceNews.com

The launch is still currently on the books for approximately one year from now, but any this delay will likely push the launch back yet again The post NASA Pauses Work on James Webb Space Telescope Due to COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on ExtremeTech .

Scientists say lunar explorers could 'see' enough Earth-orbiting satellites to make an expensive new system unnecessary

The growth layers in a 70-million-year-old clam shell indicate that a year back then had more than 370 days, with each day being only about 23.5 hours.

An analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.

It is said to be the largest and oldest Mammoth House ever discovered.

2020 EF will most likely not cause an impact event on Earth during a collision. Instead, the asteroid will probably break apart upon entering the atmosphere and cause an explosion in the sky. Unfortunately, this does not automatically mean that a collision with 2020 EF will not be dangerous for

Businesses are saying no to shoppers who want to use their own cups and containers.

Chlamydia are infamous for causing sexually transmitted infections in humans and animals or even amoeba. An international team of researchers have now discovered diverse populations of abundant Chlamydia living in deep Arctic ocean sediments. They live un

To go along with the stunning 1.8-billion-pixel image, a new video offers a sweeping view of the Red Planet.

Michelle Kunimoto has a knack for finding exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system.

Gene-editing tool CRISPR was used for the first time to try and edit a gene while DNA is still inside a patient's body.

Despite not actually getting to walk on its surface, the Apollo 13 astronauts were still able to visit the moon from a distance of around 158 miles which is closer than most of their fellow Earth dwellers will ever get to it. You can, however, see exactly

Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

For most of human history, the question of whether or not extraterrestrial life exists has been philosophical. It's only in recent years that we have had the hard-science modeling tools and observational technology to address this question. A team of

The first published data from the Yutu 2 rover's ground-penetrating radar instrument reveal the layered structure beneath the gray dirt of Von Krmn Crater's floor.

The object measures about 6 feet to 11 feet across, and its orbit suggests that it entered Earth's orbit around three year ago.

After an usual period of dimming Betelgeuse is growing brighter. But no supernova yet. /Doom off.

Originally discovered by the Kepler space telescope, G 940b has just been confirmed as an exoplanet by a team of Penn State researchers using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) located in Texas. This world, G 940b, is at least twice as large as Earth,