FallOutBoyTonto shares a report from Ars Technica: Never let it be said that Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck lacks a flamboyant streak. [...] On Tuesday evening Rocket Lab announced that it will self-fund the development of a small spacecraft, and its launch, …
NASA Hubble Space Telescope might not be equipped with the sophisticated technologies that the James Webb Space Telescope has, but the former has already earned a legendary status thanks to its contribution to astronomy. However, Hubble isn’t done yet. At lea…
2022 PC, a 190-foot wide asteroid, is going to make its closest approach to the Earth today, August 18, according to NASA and can pose a serious threat to us. What is the likelihood of a strike? Find out.
The asteroid, named Asteroid 2020 QW3, will miss the Earth just by a few million miles.
US space agency has classified Asteroid 2020 QW3 as a potentially hazardous asteroid.
Continental movement is capable of throttling marine oxygen. A previously overlooked factor — the position of continents — helps fill Earth’s oceans with life-supporting oxygen. Continental movement could ultimately have the opposite effect, killing the major…
Superconductors are the key to lossless current flow. However, the realization of superconducting diodes has only recently become an important topic of fundamental research. An international resea ...
The discovery represents a significant piece of the puzzle towards understanding how the Moon and, potentially, the Earth and other celestial bodies were formed.
Humankind has maintained an endur ...
Two Russian astronauts ended their spacewalk earlier than planned on Wednesday as one of them had a battery issue with his spacesuit, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said.
Fans of slow TV can enjoy watching SpaceX's Cargo Dragon spacecraft depart from the International Space Station on Thursday at the start of its journey home.
In a bitterly cold bath of seawater, between the turquoise arms of a distant Greenland iceberg, researchers have caught an Arctic fish with a body highly resistant to freezing temperatures.
NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. https://f24.my/8pyK.y🔔 Subscribe to France 2...
A NASA study details the ways the light telescopes receive from potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system could be “contaminated” by light from other nearby planets. The research modeled this “photobombing” effect on an advanced space telescope de…
A team of scientists based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of California San Diego, and Academia Sinica in Taiwan have shown how to account for the random patterns and dynamics of turbulence in pipes in the transitional regime. …
Scientists introduce a new way to label and study the secretome in a living organism. The research team started by genetically editing mouse embryonic stem cells to encode an engineered enzyme.
Neurobiologists have found that fruit flies are pre-programmed to take a nap in the middle of the day. The new article explores a 'thermometer' circuit for hot temperatures.
The emission from M87 has now been resolved into a thin, bright ring (orange), originating from the infinite sequence of additional images of the emission