Using the first science image released by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) this month, an international team of scientists with significant contribution from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has built an improved model for the mass distribution o…

Ph.D. candidate GUO Yunlang and Prof. WANG Bo from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the formation of black widow pulsars through ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) with He star companions.

Another uncontrollable Chinese rocket booster will fall to Earth sometime around July 30th, and it’s so massive that parts of it may survive reentry.

Titanium aluminum nitride (Ti2AlN) MAX phase was used as an inorganic additive in cellulose acetate polymeric membrane for the first time to improve its (cellulose acetate membrane) performance as a dye adsorbent from water.

There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research.

The discovery of giant viruses, with virions as large as some bacteria and eukaryotes, megabase-range genomes, and a variety of traits typically found only in cellular organisms, was one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in biology. In this Review, Schulz,…

Research shows how the Gulf of Mexico survived a prehistoric mass extinction. According to research by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), an ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped out marine l…

ESA's EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth's sister planet. But before getting down to work the van-sized spacecraft needs to "aerobrake"—lowering its orbit with thousands of passages through the planet's hot, th…

A star speeding through gas and dust has much to teach us about interstellar dynamics.

The ESA didn't need a fancy new mission to snap these images either. You can thank the venerable Mars Express orbiter.

In just a few months’ time Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation satellite will soar into the skies on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. From geostationary orbit, this new satellite, carrying two new highly sensitive instruments, will take weather for…

NASA's mission plan states that the Perseverance rover will perform a dual function by delivering the cache to the rocket that will take them off Mars

During cell division, chromosomes are replicated into two copies—one for each daughter cell. These copies, called sister chromatids, are usually considered identical. In fact, it's the two pairs of sister chromatids that make up the symmetrical X shape usuall…

Dr Joblin and Dr Sabbah highlight the ability of the AROMA molecular analyser to analyse large carbonaceous molecules in cosmic environments.

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), European astronomers have investigated a peculiar star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), known as KMHK 1762. Results of the study were published July 19 on arXiv.org.

Extra time dimensions provide scientists with a new way to think about phases of matter for stable qubits and quantum computers.

Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash on Earth sometime over the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land in Africa.

Remnants of a newly-launched Chinese rocket are expected to streak back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry. U.S. experts say it will disintegrate as it plu...

NASA plans to bring 30 Martian rock samples back to Earth in 2033, the agency said Wednesday - and is sending two small helicopters to help the mission.

Every moment in our bodies' cells, countless activities vital to life occur thanks to enzymes. These special proteins act as catalysts by accelerating the pace and improving the selectivity of chemical reactions without undergoing permanent changes themselves…

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee Technological University have created a 2D, open-source flood inundation model designed for a multiarchitecture computing system. The Two-dimensional Runoff Inun…

When a highly diluted gas is cooled to extremely low temperatures, bizarre properties are revealed. Thus, some gases form a so-called Bose-Einstein condensate—a type of matter in which all atoms move in unison. Another example is supersolidity: a state in whi…

Body temperature is a basic indicator of health. Intracellular temperature is also a basic indicator of cellular health; cancer cells are more metabolically active, and thus can have a slightly higher temperature than healthy cells. However, until now the ava…

NASA has revealed that some asteroids are aged early by the Sun, with surface rocks fracturing in just 10,000-1,00,000 years. It also said that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than on Earth.