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]
“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]
AN enormous space rock will zip past Earth this week. According to Nasa trackers, the asteroid 2013 BO76 will hurtle past on Thursday at a staggering 30,000 miles per hour (50,000 kph). An enormous… [+2869 chars]
Russia has been the target of extensive economic sanctions in the weeks since its invasion of Ukraine, but Moscow’s space program has been largely unaffected until now. The European Space Agency (ESA… [+2427 chars]
An “anti-universe” where time runs backwards could exist next to ours, according to a new study. The theory involves the fact nature has fundamental symmetries and researchers think this could apply… [+2136 chars]
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able… [+7458 chars]
A new crystalline form of water ice has been discovered in fleeting transitions between phases at high pressures. It's called Ice-VIIt, and it takes place as the substance slides between two already… [+3836 chars]
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WRIC) NASA launched a sounding rocket from their Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Monday night. The two-stage suborbital-sounding rocket was scheduled for launch March, 21 be… [+1349 chars]
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]
Introducing self-evolving RNA created by scientists at the University of Tokyo. It offers insights into how simple biological molecules can lead to the emergence of complex lifelike systems. This se… [+2450 chars]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman After meeting the major milestone of aligning the telescope to NIRCam, the Webb team is starting to e… [+3005 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]
