From a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator plowing into an asteroid (deliberately) to a helicopter trying to catch a rocket plummeting back to Earth, 2022 offered surreal moments in space that could have been ripped from the pages of…
Officials at NASA and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, are working to decide how to bring home several people at the International Space Station after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft sprang a leak last week.None of the seven people currently on board…
It was only a matter of time before human-caused climate change and pollution reached even the most isolated continent on the planet. As global temperature rises, Antarctica's pristine landscape is already changing, and new research shows most of the region's…
The International Space Station got its second solar power boost in a month as two NASA astronauts carried out a spacewalk to install a new solar panel. The event comes after a piece of wayward space garbage interfered with plans…
The National Marine Aquarium, the largest display for sea life in the United Kingdom, has officially welcomed Heidi, an olive ridley turtle rescued in 2018 from the Maldives.Heidi had embarked on a 26-hour journey to the aquarium in Plymouth, England,…
After making groundbreaking discoveries about the mysterious interior of the red planet, the InSight lander's mission has officially ended.The stationary lander spent nearly 1,500 days on Mars. Mission managers declared the program's end on Wednesday after the lander failed to…
A gift from the skies is coming just in time for the holidays — the Ursids meteor shower. This celestial event will be the last meteor shower of 2022.The Ursids typically produce only around five to 10 visible meteors an…
The fast-expanding field of ancient DNA, formally known as paleogenetics, came of age in 2022, earning its pioneering scientist Svante Pääbo a Nobel prize for medicine and physiology.Pääbo, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany,…
The final resting place for dozens of massive prehistoric marine reptiles lies in what's now Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. But why the ichthyosaurs died in such large numbers at this one particular fossil site some 230 million years ago has…
Astronomers have come across an exoplanet with a gloomy future, spiraling closer to its host star until eventually it will be obliterated.The exoplanet, called Kepler-1658b, was identified in 2019, a decade after the Kepler Space Telescope discovered it as a…
More than 190 countries have adopted a sweeping agreement to protect nature at the United Nations' biodiversity conference in Montreal.The gavel went down in the early hours of Monday on an agreement which includes 23 targets aimed at halting the…
Five people were killed in a shooting at a condominium in a Toronto suburb Sunday night, police…
Five people were killed in a shooting at a condominium in a Toronto suburb Sunday night, police said, a "terrible" crime that came amid Canada's efforts to tighten its gun control laws.After responding to an active shooting call about 7:20…
One of Iran's best-known actresses has been arrested days after she criticized the execution of a man who was involved in the nationwide protests that have swept the country since September.Taraneh Alidoosti, who starred in the 2016 Oscar-winning film, "The…
Some of our favorite space missions are closing out the year in a big way.Artemis I made a literal splash(down) when it successfully returned to Earth on December 11. Engineers are studying the data collected by the Orion spacecraft now…
The Perseverance rover is about to build the first depot of rock and soil samples on another planet. Establishing a cache site is a milestone in the complex preparation to return the first rocks and dirt from Mars to Earth…
The global energy crisis caused by Russia's war on Ukraine has pushed global demand for coal -- the most polluting of all fossil fuels -- to a record high in 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.Demand for…
Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species' tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in what's now the western US around 152 million years ago.For…
The first mission to survey nearly all of the water on Earth's surface has launched.The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, known as SWOT, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California…
When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft slammed into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, the impact certainly left a mark.The intentional collision, which took place on September 26 as a test of asteroid deflection technology, displaced more than 2 million pounds…
