China's Zhurong rover was recently spotted wandering the Martian ground. According to NASA, its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to take a peek at this Chinese space machine in the Utopia Plani… [+3183 chars]
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago via accretion. Earth’s building blocks were chunks of rock of varying sizes. From dust to planetesimals and everything in between. Many of those chunks of rock… [+8831 chars]
The more sensitive the instrument, the harder it is to keep clean. Essentially, this was the case for the James Webb Space Telescope while it awaited launch late last year, after it arrived at Aria… [+4649 chars]
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radi… [+2159 chars]
A new search for the elusive Planet Nine has once again yielded nary a sniff of a sneaky outer Solar System body. Although the hypothetical object continues to evade detection, a six-year search in … [+4061 chars]
How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other? A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a simple and versatile solution: Introduce an electron with a jolt … [+4346 chars]
The CMS, or Compact Muon Solenoid, experiment is a particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator. The LHC, which is operated by the European Organiz… [+6492 chars]
Engineers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a promising electrochemical system to convert emissions from chemical and power plants into useful products while addressing climate change.UC… [+3308 chars]
Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope team expects that Webb’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals … [+3304 chars]
The thought of reviving the foregone dodo is no longer one for the birds. The recent discovery of a fantastic specimen of dodo DNA was the last clue needed to complete the extinct birds genome, anno… [+2980 chars]
Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts, from aerosols in the atmosphere to the magnetic field of stars. However,… [+3137 chars]
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to c… [+6906 chars]
