Open Cosmos, a space company making satellites that gather data to solve pressing global challenges, has seen its fourth Earth Observation satellite of the year, ALISIO-1 launched.
Gift a loved one a star projector, home planetarium or ambient night light this Christmas with our round-up of the best models ahead of the holiday season.
In the Kumaon mountains in the central sector of Uttarakhand’s Himalayas, a team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Japan’s Niigata University have unearthed water droplets trapped in mineral deposits. These droplets could be remnan…
Science News: A colossal rogue wave, the Ucluelet wave, reached a staggering height of 17.6 meters (58 feet) off the coast of British Columbia in November 2020. Thi
A recent survey suggests that reducing the number of meetings and conferences is a viable way to address concerns about the effectiveness of the modern scientific collaboration process, its effects on the environment and the well-being of the community.
The video shows NASA's Orion spacecraft reenter Earth's atmosphere on December 11, 2022, concluding the 1.4 million-mile, 25.5-day Artemis I mission to the Moon.
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First there was a gloriously dusty disk. Then the traceable tracks of exocomets. But 15 years ago this fall, the star system Beta Pictoris yielded one of the most iconic pictures in astrophysics:
Taking inspiration from the human brain's intricate three-dimensional biological network of approximately 200 billion cells connected by trillions of nanoscale synapses, scientists are seeking to develop AI hardware that mimics its structure and efficiency.
Recently the team at JPL responsible for communication with the Voyager 1 spacecraft noticed an issue with the data it was returning from the Flight Data System (FDS). Although normally the FDS is …
Secondary reactions can result in the formation of reactive species, such as free radicals, which may further interact with surrounding molecules, leading to a cascade of molecular transformations.
Beneath Svalbard's permafrost, millions of cubic meters of methane are trapped—and scientists have now learned that it can migrate beneath the cold seal of the permafrost and escape. A large-scale escape could create a cycle of warming that would send methane…
The Olympus Mons towers 16 miles, 25 kilometres above the surrounding plans and stretches across 374 mile, 601 kilometres, which is roughly the size of the state of Arizona.