When Donald York was a student beginning his career in astronomy in the 1960s, it was very difficult to get enough time on a telescope to make observations. We were suffering from a deficit of data,… [+4830 chars]
Whatever you are doing, whether it is driving a car, going for a jog, or even at your laziest, eating chips and watching TV on the couch, there is an entire suite of molecular machinery inside each o… [+11459 chars]
Who doesn't want to know every nook and cranny of the Moon? Singular Focus There's now a map of the Moon's surface more detailed than any that came before it. Published in the journal Science Bull… [+1532 chars]
Space industryThe FTs Peggy Hollinger and Clive Cookson talk to the European Space Agencys Samantha Cristoforetti about life on the International Space Station, the fallout from the Russian war on ea… [+80 chars]
Archaea are present in the gut microbiome throughout the animal kingdom We analysed samples from 250 species of animals (n=341 samples) ranging from invertebrates to mammals the majority of which, e… [+45208 chars]
NASA's Perseverance rover has picked up a rocky hitchhiker on Mars. The rover has collected a "pet rock" tucked inside its left front wheel that has been riding along with Perseverance since early … [+2867 chars]
A unique telescope that focuses light with a slowly spinning bowl of liquid mercury instead of a solid mirror has opened its eye to the skies above India. Such telescopes have been built before, but … [+5410 chars]
BySciTechDaily.comJune 10, 2022 The Roman Space Observer Game is a retro 8-bit style video game to promote the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: GMG World Media/NALA Comm Development Team … [+2025 chars]
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in the mid-2020s, is made to focus on the secrets of dark matter and energy while searching for exoplanets, supernovae, black holes, a… [+2608 chars]
Millions of years ago, a bipedal dinosaur with knives for fingers stalked the shores of the Asian continent. But those Edward Scissorhandslike weapons were used for slashing vegetation rather than … [+4652 chars]
WASHINGTON NASA will commission a small independent study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a move the agency says is part of its desire to support risky research that has the potential for hig… [+4120 chars]
Newswise — Seven new scientific results from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Very Large Array (VLA), and the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) will be revealed at multi… [+4277 chars]
