Illumination maps of the lunar South Pole. The shades of gray depict the amount of sunlight received ... [+] during 2024. The floors of many of the craters receive no sunlight at all they're permanen… [+3104 chars]
ByColumbia University Quantum InitiativeMay 21, 2022 Spintronic computing artistic concept illustration. Columbia University Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in New … [+5463 chars]
Previous this 12 months, a group of Johns Hopkins College astronomers led by way of doctoral candidate Brian Welch came upon the farthest identified celebrity ever recorded. Whilst the invention itse… [+9903 chars]
A powerful earthquake recently jolted the Martian desert. On May 4, NASA’s InSight lander deployed to investigate Mars’ inner workings, and recorded the greatest temblor ever detected on another pla… [+1210 chars]
Earlier this year, the single greatest site reliability engineering (SRE) lesson unfolded itself out in space. Last week we saw the very first, better-than-even-expected images from the James Webb Sp… [+11257 chars]
A team of researchers have found a remarkable type of fossilisation that has been mostly overlooked so far. The fossils are tiny imprints of single celled organisms on organic matter, and are known a… [+5050 chars]
One of the most powerful tools the world knows when it comes to measuring the interstellar is the Hubble Space Telescope. With over a billion pictures of weird and interesting phenomena happening aro… [+1984 chars]
Heretofore the beginning of astronomy, humans have been obsessed with the suspicion as to whether there is life somewhere else in the universe. However, much of the scientific emphasis on Mars is ded… [+1395 chars]
NASA's 45-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is a marvel. It's cruising along outside our solar system and still staying in touch with Earth. But it's presented its team with what NASA is calling a "myst… [+1689 chars]
The highest quality images of the Earth's interior have been captured by scientists. A joint research project published a study about one of the Earth's least known parts - the core-mantle boundary. … [+2616 chars]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft descends under parachutes on December 22, 2019, at the conclusion of the Orbital Flight Test-1 mission. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Geminani Members of NASA’s Independent Safet… [+10234 chars]
Credit: Efazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0 Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are studying voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs). Their work revealed a previously unknown mechanism of inactivation… [+4363 chars]