Mars’ surface. PHOTO: ESA Science/Twitter BEIJING — China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on July 23 in a bold attempt to join the US...
China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the...
TORONTO — Comet NEOWISE, a massive burning “icy snowball,” will be closest to the Earth Wednesday night, before its orbit begins to take it out into...
China has launched its first rover mission to Mars. The six-wheeled robot, encapsulated in a protective probe, was lifted off Earth by a Long March 5...
NEW YORK — Stone tools found in a Mexican cave suggest that people were living in North America as early as about 26,500 years ago, much...
PARIS, FRANCE — Tools excavated from a cave in central Mexico are strong evidence that humans were living in North America at least 30,000 years ago,...
When Mohammad Garshasb first heard that a rare comet was going to be visible in the skies over Simcoe County, he decided to do whatever he...
Scientists have released the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe ever created that explains the most significant gaps in its history. “We know both the ancient...
Astronomers using the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a second planetary-mass companion orbiting TYC 8998-760-1, a 16.7-million-year-old...
Article content continued Theia was absorbed into Earth, according to theory, and other planets have similarly “died.” For example, these theories of planetary formation explain such...