Science

Chimpanzees Tina and Martin, who studied at the National Center for Chimpanzee Care in Texas. Credit: University of Warwick The capacity of language is built on our ability to understand combinations of words and the relationship between them, but the evolutionary history of this ability is not much understood. Now, researchers from the University of Warwick have managed to date …

NASA shared stunning images of its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that touched an asteroid yesterday, revealing how the vehicle touched rocks and dirt on the object’s surface when it came in contact. The goal of the faucet was to collect a sample of material from the asteroid, but the engineers behind the spacecraft say they will not be sure if they have …

OSIRIS-REx collects samples from the asteroid Bennu. NASA scientists confirmed on Wednesday that the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully made contact with an asteroid a day earlier and touched the surface for six seconds, collecting dust and pebbles from the surface. The spacecraft’s appearance on the asteroid Bennu, which is only about as wide as the Empire State Building is tall, was …

NASA scientists will announce an “exciting new discovery” about the moon at a virtual press conference on Monday, the agency said Wednesday. The news will be announced by NASA in a 12-phone conference that will also stream on its website, a statement said. Further details on what the message will include were not released – but NASA teased that the …

This article was originally published on The conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Christopher Newman, Professor of Space and Politics, Northumbria University, Newcastle Eight countries have signed the Artemis Agreements, a set of guidelines around the Artemis program for manned exploration of the moon. The United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, the …

Scientists, engineers and other staff at Lockheed Martin Space, NASA and the University of Arizona cheered and made the coronavirus elbow bump on Tuesday when a spacecraft collecting NASA’s first ever sample from an asteroid successfully completed the maneuver. The mission is part of NASA’s ongoing efforts to understand more about how the solar system was formed, how life began, …

Researchers from Purdue University and the University of California, Irvine, studied the aptly named diabolical iron-clad beetle – Phloeodes diabolicus – to understand the secret behind its strength. “If you take a beetle and you want to collapse it with your finger, you can probably kill it,” he told CNN. But not the devilish iron-clad beetle. “This beetle is so …

If you would like to see more articles like this, please support our coverage of the space program by becoming one Space travel now a member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. Direct coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 …

On October 18, SpaceX’s second drone ship ‘booster recovery’ left Port Canaveral at precise at the same time as a Falcon 9 rocket sent 60 Starlink satellites a dozen miles north. A remote point-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera recently installed by NASASpaceflight.com in the harbor, literally trapped drone ship Just Read The Instructions (JRTI) leaving its berth, and a Falcon 9 taking …

This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printhead scans over each layer of a part and blows metal powder that melts by a laser. It is one of several ways in which parts 3D are printed on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but were not used to create the parts aboard the Perseverance Rover. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech …