Why do rockets perform a rolling motion after launch?

Scientists learned early on how crucial the roll maneuver was to get astronauts to space, and NASA has been using it since ...

Earth Is Zipping Through a Giant Interstellar Cloud. Here’s How We Know

The solar system is now at the edge of this cloud, but the massive stockpile of cosmic stardust has left signatures on ...
ZME Science

Fruit Flies Survived Extreme 13G Hypergravity That Would Crush Most Humans

Fruit flies react strangely when gravity gets stronger. For humans, a fruit fly weighs almost nothing. Yet when scientists ...
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NASA spacecraft to swing past Mars as it chases rare metal asteroid

Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...

NASA spacecraft to fly past Mars this week, on voyage to rare metal asteroid

Psyche will travel quite close to Mars, coming within just 2,800 miles of the red planet's surface at its nearest point, according to NASA. Slingshotting past at about 12,333 miles per hour, the ...

Evidence In Antarctic Ice Suggests That Earth Passing Through Supernova Debris, Says Study

The researchers analysed 295 kilograms of ice extracted from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA).