SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on a secretive mission in the early hours of Sunday morning. Liftoff is planned for 12:27 AM EDT (04:27 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral … [+10397 chars]
Astronomers observe comets to study their properties and trajectories to find out what they are made up of and also if they pose any threat to the Earth. However, this time, astronomers actually saw … [+2093 chars]
COLUMBIA, Md., June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After a two-year hiatus, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ASSOFIA has returned to Christchurch, New Zealand, for a long deployment. About once … [+6137 chars]
Space is never up to any good! While the cosmos appear static and boring, that's far from the truth. Chemical processes and cosmic collisions are constantly stirring trouble in the universe. A clash… [+1886 chars]
The European Space Agency, or ESA, recently released detailed information on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The data is being collected in an effort to create the most complete map… [+2563 chars]
A few years ago, deep beneath the Apennine Mountains in Italy, a team of physicists hunted for flashes of light that just might suggest human consciousness is the product of gravitational forces. Th… [+4086 chars]
With repairs complete and the rocket in place at its designated launch pad , NASA is ready to once again attempt a critical fueling test of its next-generation Space Launch System . Per Space.com … [+1255 chars]
A new study throws cold water (vapor?) on an earlier paper that suggested that aerial life forms could exist in Venuss massive cloud cover: Researchers from the University of Cambridge used a combin… [+3027 chars]
Carbon nanotubes are tiny tubes made of pure carbon. There is evidence that they could be produced in the dust and gas that surround dying stars. The findings suggest a simple but elegant process for… [+6895 chars]
University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They’re not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation. The new stellar systems contain only young, … [+4943 chars]
<li>Shetty SA, Hugenholtz F, Lahti L, Smidt H, de Vos WM. Intestinal microbiome landscaping: insight in community assemblage and implications for microbial modulation strategies. FEMS Microbiol Rev. … [+28560 chars]
Researchers have reconstructed the most ancient version of the genome of E. coli, using gallstones from the preserved liver and gall bladder of a 16th century Italian mummy. E. coli is not a source o… [+2382 chars]