NASAs SOFIA telescope on a plane will make its final observations by 30 September.Credit: Joshua Fisher/NASA NASA and the German Aerospace Center are permanently shutting down the Stratospheric Obse… [+5404 chars]
Researchers from the University of Stuttgart have developed a new, reliable method of coating 3D printed lenses with anti-reflective coatings. Dubbed low-temperature thermal atomic layer deposition … [+5343 chars]
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have detected two rocky alien worlds orbiting a nearby M dwarf star known as HD 260655. The newly found exoplanets are larger an… [+3464 chars]
Planetary science has managed to grip the public yet again after a video comparing the planets by size went viral on social media. Shared by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue, the video on Twitter… [+2245 chars]
It's an eerie scene: A desolate Martian landscape, completely empty, save for the wreckage of what appears to be an alien spacecraft. And it was all captured by a tiny helicopter flying overhead. N… [+4550 chars]
Engineers recently completed a series of Mars Sample Return Earth Entry System (EES) drop tests, which will help bring samples from the Red Planet back to Earth safely and securely. For the unversed… [+1891 chars]
image: Brookhaven Lab biologist Paul Freimuth and co-author Feiyue Teng, a scientist in Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), at the light microscope used to image bacteria in t… [+7800 chars]
Alas, NASAs SOFIA flying telescope will stop operations later in 2022, after the agency and its partners re-examined the program. But why? Photo: Michael Rausch There are some aircraft that are ext… [+3599 chars]
The enormous Saturn V rocket is one of humanity's most impressive and important technological achievements. In the history of human achievement and scientific progress, few moments are as singularly… [+11094 chars]
Scientists have worked out how the piezoionic effect works in hydrogels, an advance that could further the application of ionic skins to prosthetic arms or robot hands. Scientists have worked out h… [+3734 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Image source, NASA/ESA/CSA Image caption, Webb's four instruments: NIRSpec, NIRCam, MIRI and FGS/NIRISS James Webb, astronomy's new super space… [+3850 chars]
(a) The electrochemical stability window of high-concentrated LiCl aqueous electrolyte expands to ~ 2.7 V. (b) The voltage window of MXene electrode in high-concentrated LiCl aqueous electrolyte is b… [+3342 chars]
