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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
Xing Xu and Shundong Bi from the Centre for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology at Yunnan University, along with colleagues, recently recovered a partial skull, mandible, the forelimbs and hindlimbs, and… [+3925 chars]
The Moon is seen rising behind NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard. Credit: NASA / Aubrey Gemignani Edinburgh / Cape Canaveral, 21 March 2022. – NASAs Space Launc… [+1354 chars]
What falls into a black hole, stays in a black hole, at least according to the laws of general relativity. But now, new research suggests that the material inside the black hole may leave a quantum i… [+4188 chars]
image: A conceptual animation showing electrons traveling down Earth's magnetic field lines, colliding into particles in in Earth's atmosphere to trigger the aurora.view more Credit: Credits: NASA'… [+4571 chars]
