Our planet's oceans generate tell-tale light signatures when sunlight reflects off them. Exoplanets with significant ocean coverage may do the same. Can we use the Earth's reflectance signatures to i… [+5413 chars]
SYDNEY: For the past ten years, NASA's Curiosity rover has been trundling around the surface of Mars, taking photos in its quest to understand the history and geology of the red planet and perhaps ev… [+4199 chars]
After months of testing, an ASU-designed and -built instrument to measure the surface temperature of a moon of Jupiter has arrived at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. There it… [+7245 chars]
"Shooting stars" from the tau Herculids meteor shower may be visible late this month, but you might want to listen for them instead. Excitement among meteor enthusiasts is building as we get closer … [+6742 chars]
Understanding the effects of microgravity on the human body is essential in enabling astronauts to travel through the harsh environment of space for months, or even years. Significant changes to the … [+3569 chars]
In a study published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, a mix of chemistry, nanomaterials, and artificial intelligence (AI) was used to produce a straightforward yet cryptographic… [+5568 chars]
A “potentially hazardous” asteroid measuring approximately 1.7km in diameter is expected to pass close to Earth today. The asteroid will pass by Earth at 16:26 South African Standard Time (SAST). … [+1931 chars]
Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Ranges Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliners second uncrewed flig… [+2091 chars]
image: Photos taken before and after the hurricane demonstrate the resilience of the microbial mats.view more Credit: Johns Hopkins University After sustaining seemingly catastrophic hurricane dam… [+3428 chars]
The moons Orientale Basin as seen by NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA GSFC Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions raged on the moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands o… [+4794 chars]
Researchers in the groups of Prof. Tobias Gulder from TU Dresden and Prof. Tanja Gulder from Leipzig University have succeeded in understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for the production of the n… [+3901 chars]
Writing in the journal Materials, a team of scientists from China has reported the use of neural networks for modeling hyperelastic material structures to identify material parameters. The authors ha… [+6194 chars]