NASA: The month of May has been relatively quiet so far in terms of asteroids coming close to our planet. While there have been a few small space rocks flying past the planet at a considerable distan… [+2392 chars]
Salt crystals from Central Australia hold ancient microorganisms that became trapped 830 million years ago, new research finds. And there's a chance that some of the microorganisms might still be a… [+4547 chars]
University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a technology that allows amputees to move a robotic arm using brain signals instead of their muscles. Current commercial prosthetic li… [+3672 chars]
Nasa is set to attempt another launch of the Starliner astronaut capsule on Thursday. The uncrewed test flight of the Boeings Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft comes after a s… [+2198 chars]
Engineers rely on catalysts for a vast array of applications from food manufacturing to chemical production, so finding efficient, environmentally friendly catalysts is an important avenue of researc… [+2875 chars]
Schematic of experimental setup. In Alices (Bobs) lab, a seed laser is locked to an ultra-low-expansion (ULE) glass cavity to achieve a subhertz linewidth by using the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) [41, 42… [+4351 chars]
Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions broke loose on the moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands of square miles of the orb's surface in hot lava. Over the eons, that lava created the … [+4835 chars]
China plans to launch its second-ever deep space exploration effort in 2025, according to the chief designer of the country's Tianwen 1 Mars mission. Zhang Rongqiao told China Central Television on… [+3256 chars]
University of Central Florida researchers are developing new photonic materials that could one day help enable low power, ultra-fast, light-based computing.The unique materials, known as topological … [+3404 chars]
Remains of a now-extinct ancient human species called Denisovans were found in southeast Asia for the first time. Scientists were seeking remains from Denisovans in the area because they knew that s… [+3581 chars]
A seasonal imbalance of the ratio of solar energy absorbed by Mars and heat released by the planet into space may be fuelling dust storms in the red planet, according to a new study. The ratio, kno… [+3813 chars]
Tonga's January eruption created atmospheric reactions 'unprecedented in the modern geophysical record' A boat at sea had this view of the smoke rising from the eruption. The Tongan volcano has cre… [+5122 chars]
