To build a fusion power plant, a plasma of more than 100 million degrees Celsius must be stored in a magnetic field and kept there for an extended period. Using measuring instruments developed indepe… [+2186 chars]
Humans aren’t just making Earth warmer, they are making the climate chaotic, a stark new study suggests. The new research, which was posted April 21 to the preprint database arXiv (opens in new ta… [+5905 chars]
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid called (7335) 1989 JA will become the closest large asteroid to ... [+] Earth in all of 2022 when it whizzes safely past on May 27. getty The largest asteroid to… [+2071 chars]
A world-class astronomical observatory is under construction in the town of Lenghu, northwest China's Qinghai Province. It has an average elevation of 3,800 meters. The site was chosen for the platea… [+207 chars]
The concept of solar sails is not particularly new just check out the Planetary Society's LightSail 2, French startup Gama or NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System. But one group of researchers… [+3223 chars]
In an effort to provide an environmentally friendly and low-waste alternative, researchers at MIT have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab. Credit: Image court… [+7439 chars]
NASA's spacesuits are getting old. The extra-vehicular mobility unitsEMUs for shortwere designed and built for spacewalks outside NASA's space shuttles, which flew for the last time in 2011. Nowadays… [+4557 chars]
A project to develop diffractive solar sails has advanced to the third and final phase of NASAs advanced concepts program. The team behind the project now has two years to further develop this unconv… [+3970 chars]
Are shards of planet Mercury hiding on Earth? Scientists think that Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun was once a much larger cosmic body, until it collided with another space object and got ripp… [+3229 chars]
Science bears a great responsibility and we have seen it above all in the years of the epidemic: it must know how to disseminate without belittling it. It does not admit that one suddenly becomes an … [+2375 chars]
In March 2018, researchers launched what looks like a white, cooler-sized fridge to the International Space Station. That heavy box houses a $100 million facility known as the Cold Atom Laboratory, w… [+3141 chars]
image: In an effort to provide an environmentally friendly and low-waste alternative, researchers at MIT have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab.view more C… [+7109 chars]
