Missions to Ocean Moons Face a Strange Hazard Scientists Didn’t Expect

The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a ...
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SpaceX’s CRS-34 Cargo Dragon targets Friday after two weather scrubs — 6,400 pounds of science can’t wait another week

For the third time this week, SpaceX and NASA are going to try to get a Cargo Dragon off the ground at Cape Canaveral. The ...

Live updates from NASA-SpaceX ISS supply mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida

Live updates from NASA and SpaceX’s Friday evening CRS-34 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space ...

Emory physicist takes science out of the lab and onto the playground

Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Dense soils may spread earthquake surface ruptures into wider damage zones, particle models suggest

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil ...

Lessons of a landslide detective

Across our warming world, the ground is growing less stable. Nowhere is problem more evident than in Alaska, where one ...