China selects new space missions including lunar far side astronomy and terrestrial exoplanet survey Advancing its ambitious agenda in space science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is backing a new suite of diverse, cutting edge missions.

In the latest research, scientists have found that the distinctive "tiger stripes" as well as the sliding side-by-side motion of Saturn's moon Enceladus are related to jets of ice crystals which erupt from its icy shell. The new findings will help scientists…

Scientists have found that an asteroid which crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning at the highest rate ever known, which was one spin every 2.6 seconds. The asteroid, known as 2024 BX1, is probably not more than one metre wide an…

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth. Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communica…

China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon's far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pav...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently released photos of the Horsehead Nebula, which were the sharpest ever photos clicked of one of most iconic celestial bodies.

Australia’s astronomer-at-large, Fred Watson, discusses China’s new high-resolution map of the Moon.The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released the highest-...

Mount Erebus, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, spews around 80 grams of gold into the frigid air of Antarctica daily. This amounts to nearly Rs 5 lakh worth of gold dust being ejected every day.

While their mission will begin on May 10 as they enter the habitat it will end on June 24 as they 039return039 to Earth

Modern agricultural science has brought us some super-powered plants, and as we humans are wont to do, we took full credit for these incredible crops.

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

The American space agency however said that all the instruments on the telescope are stable and the observatory is in good health

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NASA's Psyche probe, equipped with Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC), beams a laser signal from 140 million miles away to Earth.

RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a "new" star that will be visible to the naked eye — without a telescope — sometime before September: By "star", I do not mean "comet", "meteorite" or "firefly", but genuine [star] photo…

China's first comprehensive solar probe, the Kuafu-1, has detected over 100 white-light flares since its launch in October 2022, the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Monday.White-light flares refers to flares

The search for life beyond Earth is really just getting started, but science has an encouraging early answer: there are plenty of planets in the galaxy, many...

NASA has just released the targeted flight schedule for the first crewed test mission involving Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales claim to have identified three TOPCon panel failure types that are absent in PERC products. They explained that these failures may occur when the modules are exposed to high humidity and contaminants before enc…

"The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical."

A novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by ‘fingerprints’ of intense water use.