Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. Most of the rocky planets and satellit… [+4986 chars]
By Sonia KatariaBBC News Image source, John England Image caption, John England captured the full Moon over Beeston, Nottinghamshire, at about 21:00 GMT on Thursday Photographers across the East M… [+1971 chars]
How Rover Planning Works Before the rover rolls, a team of mobility planning experts (Perseverance has 14 who trade off shifts) writes the driving commands the robotic explorer will carry out. The c… [+4099 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]
The dense plumes of wildfire smoke seen in recent years are contributing to the warming of the Arctic, say scientists. Smoke from wildfires in California in 2020. Photo: AFP Their study says that p… [+3963 chars]
Plasmids and RNAs Two plasmids, each encoding the ancestral host RNA (HL00) and HL2120, were obtained previously as the plasmids encoding round 128 clone27 and Host-11529, respectively. Two plasmids… [+14675 chars]
A team of archaeologists and physicists have been received approval from the Egyptian government to scan the Great Pyramid of Giza. The team has proposed using cosmic-ray technology involving telesc… [+1075 chars]
Russia's Soyuz space ship carrying three cosmonauts have docked with International Space Station amid heightened geopolitical tensions between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine. In this frame grab … [+3292 chars]
