Storms, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, clouds. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's new GOES-18 satellite will witness them all, helping us to better forecast and understand weather,… [+1526 chars]
Three years ago, scientists used a telescope the size of Earth to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, they've done it again — this time, closer to home, and of a very different invisib… [+5454 chars]
Storms, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, clouds. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's new GOES-18 satellite will witness them all, helping us to better forecast and understand weather,… [+1526 chars]
On Thursday, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released the imagery of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*. It is a direct detection of one… [+8125 chars]
Skywatchers might get a bonus this weekend, when a meteor storm not associated with a major meteor shower could light up the morning. In the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, May 15, our planet will pass t… [+1555 chars]
Theres green energy and then theres truly GREEN energy, or rather, blue-green energy. A colourful colony of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, have successfully powered a comput… [+3930 chars]
The transgenic papaya “SunUp” was developed in the 1990s and was widely publicized because of its ability to resist the papaya ringspot virus. Although researchers from the Ming group had identified … [+4734 chars]
There's been discussion about which human-made objects can be "seen from space." If you have a good enough zoom lens, you can spot even fairly small things, like a SpaceX Crew Dragon on a Falcon 9 ro… [+1444 chars]
Laser powder bed fusion, a 3D-printing technique, offers potential in the manufacturing industry, particularly when fabricating nickel-titanium shape memory alloys with complex geometries. Although t… [+5425 chars]
Star HD 222925 is a cool and unassuming star in the southern constellation of Tucana. It might appear just another of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, but new analysis has revealed that it is … [+2341 chars]
image: By bending sheet of cells, similar to the one that makes up our skin, the researchers noticed more precisely that the cells swelled to take the shape of small domes.view more Credit: Aurélie… [+4196 chars]
NASA and Boeing are about to launch another test flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in a crucial mission following a failed attempt in 2019. The uncrewed mission will launch from Cape Canave… [+1936 chars]
