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]
Pasadena, CA— A team of astronomers led by University of Michigan’s Ian Roederer and including Carnegie’s Erika Holmbeck have identified the widest range of elements yet observed in a star beyond our… [+4371 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]
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]
Paleontologists discovered a tiny fragment that may have been from the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs, as revealed in a new documentary Dinosaur Apocalypse.… [+785 chars]
Good morning, gentle reader, and welcome to your Friday roundup of the best stories and images from This Week in Space. This week, it’s all good news. The James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned … [+6975 chars]
The latest studies published by The Human Cell Atlas make further progress toward their goal of mapping every human cell type, and these four papers focus on multi-tissue cell analysis. The Human… [+5077 chars]
More than 1,700 new asteroids discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope but hidden in its files for 20 years have been discovered by astronomers. Artificial intelligence has aided scientists in the d… [+3477 chars]
When thinking about quantum mechanical systems, single photons and well-isolated ions and atoms may spring to mind, or electrons spreading through a crystal. More exotic in the context of quantum mec… [+5877 chars]
A study led by a Monash University geologist has provided fresh evidence into the erosion of rocks on Mars by water and wind, enabling a greater understanding of when the planet may have been habitab… [+2517 chars]
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats above Earth in a gorgeous new photo from the International Space Station. Watkins launched to the orbiting lab on April 27 as part of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission… [+2134 chars]
Researchers have demonstrated a biological cell comparable in size to a AA battery that uses a common species of non-toxic algae known as Synechocystis, that naturally harvests energy from sunlight t… [+2089 chars]
