Earlier this week, private space technology company Astrobotic unveiled its new robotic lunar lander. Called Peregrine, the 6-foot-tall probe is scheduled to land on the Moon later this year. Pereg… [+2881 chars]
New research has identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Oceanone of Earth's main cooling systems. Ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. Many stud… [+3638 chars]
Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of … [+2123 chars]
The "Live Space Station Tracking Map" on NASA's website is your first option. It has a solitary flight path map showing the exact location of the ISS as it travels across the planet in real-time. It … [+1390 chars]
Stable packets of light waves — called optical solitons — are emitted in ultrashort-pulse lasers as a chain of light flashes. These solitons often combine into pairs with very short temporal separati… [+2869 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been fired up again after a three year break for maintenance and upgrades with the first beam sent around the tunnel just before 10am BST this morning. The LHC wo… [+13327 chars]
During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great ice sheets that make up around 99% of Antarctica. This melted water collects to form tho… [+4968 chars]
Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that c… [+3514 chars]
Stargazers will be treated with a new celestial event as the Lyrid meteor shower will light up the sky on Friday night and Saturday morning. Starting on April 15, the meteor shower will continue till… [+1813 chars]
Stable packets of light waves — called optical solitons — are emitted in ultrashort-pulse lasers as a chain of light flashes. These solitons often combine into pairs with very short temporal separati… [+2869 chars]
From WIRED: Increasingly journals have published research thats free for anyone to read, and scientists have shared their data among each other. The open science movement has also entailed the rise … [+3580 chars]
Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, everyday mechanical devices. Reliable, compac… [+8335 chars]
