To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the “Greenheugh Pediment” – a gentle slope c… [+5061 chars]
Astronomers have detected a 'galactic space laser' shooting light beams at Earth from 5 billion light years away. The powerful radio-wave 'laser', called a 'megamaser', was detected by the MeerKAT … [+5667 chars]
At least 5,500 new virus species have been found from oceans across the globe in a major new discovery, prompting researchers to propose more categories to classify them to properly capture their div… [+4267 chars]
Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a jouleor 10-35 jo… [+4389 chars]
Astronomers have detected a 'galactic space laser' shooting light beams at Earth from 5 billion light years away. The powerful radio-wave 'laser', called a 'megamaser', was detected by the MeerKAT … [+5667 chars]
That's... so far. Star Light Scientists may have glimpsed some of the oldest material in the universe. According to a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, researchers found an unidentified object n… [+2042 chars]
Scientists at the Tanis dig site in North Dakota have uncovered a fossil of a dinosaur that they believe died on the day that the giant reptiles were wiped from existence by an asteroid. According t… [+1587 chars]
In this illustration, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking. Credit: NASA/SpaceX NASA and Axiom Space will provide coverage of launch and select miss… [+6544 chars]
Enlarge/ SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and the Endeavour spacecraft await the Axiom-1 crew launch on Friday. 33 with 18 posters participating Welcome to Edition 4.38 of the Rocket Report! We're already … [+6262 chars]
After a decade of meticulous measurements, scientists have announced that a fundamental particle the W boson has a significantly greater mass than theorised, shaking the foundations of our understand… [+3769 chars]
