It’s called HiRISE, or High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, and it’s the camera installed on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA satellite orbiting Mars. Recently, this probe approached D… [+1244 chars]
image: Schematic of the remote magnon-magnon coupling circuit. Two single-crystal YIG spheres are embedded to the NbN coplanar superconducting resonator circuit, where microwave photon mediates coher… [+5312 chars]
“There is an international race to identify the best platform for controlling and processing quantum information for quantum computers, where superconductors play a prominent role,” says Duc Phan, Ph… [+3071 chars]
A piece of space junk crash-landed on the Moon's far side on March 4, 2022 (Credit: ESA.Int) A school-bus-sized object, which has been orbiting in space at about 5,600 miles per hour since 2014, cra… [+2183 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Chen Ping and Associate Prof. Liu Lin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Associate Prof.… [+2045 chars]
China’s Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the Red Planet. While the Chinese Space Agency … [+3227 chars]
The opening of the ice-free corridor that linked Beringia to the North American interior happened potentially thousands of years after the first human migrations to the continent, according to new ev… [+7438 chars]
Although the Arecibo radio telescope is no more, it continues to deliver scientific discoveries. There is a wealth of Arecibo data astronomers continue to mine for new discoveries, and one of them is… [+3298 chars]
A Tyrannosaurus rex chick shivers in the cold aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The asteroid caused sulfur aerosols to enter the atmosphere, which led to global cooling. (Image c… [+4938 chars]
NASA's MRO spacecraft spotted China's Zhurong rover and its wheels tracks on March 11, 2022. The dark object is the rover. NASA/JPL/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series explor… [+1532 chars]
After James Webb Space Telescope officials released a stunning image of a single star, the team is ready to get other telescope parts in line with the observatory's mirrors. The $10 billion telescop… [+3921 chars]
For the first time, physicists have confirmed a weird quantum phenomenon in which tiny particles, when nudged out of place, will snap right back to where they came from. The strange behavior, called… [+6880 chars]
