NASA's CAPSTONE mission, which will chart a new orbit around the moon which will hopefully be used for a future crewed lunar space station, is underway after a successful launch on Tuesday morning. R… [+1435 chars]
NASA is breathing a sigh of relief following a successful demonstration in which a docked Cygnus freighter was temporarily converted into a booster engine for the International Space Station. The fav… [+3543 chars]
You know you’re living in the space age when a rocket hits the moon, and the industry as a whole points to the sky and, like an angry teacher holding up a paper airplane, asks “Who launched this?!” T… [+4891 chars]
Chinese researchers may have found a new approach to treat cancer by using a plasma treatment to induce apoptosis, the death of cancer cells, without any obvious side effect to normal cells. The cat… [+3620 chars]
FORUM in action. Credit: ESA/Met Office / Météo-France / geoGraphics Edinburgh / Stevenage, 29 June 2022. – Airbus has been awarded a 160 million contract for ESAs FORUM satellite to help improve th… [+1148 chars]
SpaceX Starship's Super Heavy Rocket is ready for what could be its final launch pad test before a likely orbital test flight in July. The massive Super Heavy Booster 7, which has 33 Raptor engine… [+3768 chars]
A team of Florida State University researchers has uncovered a way to use low-energy light to manipulate photopolymers or plastic filmsa finding that has implications for a wide range of technologies… [+3380 chars]
SpaceX Starship's Super Heavy Rocket is ready for what could be its final launch pad test before a likely orbital test flight in July. The massive Super Heavy Booster 7, which has 33 Raptor engine… [+3768 chars]
Acetylcholine (ACh) is a neuromodulator with a central role in aversive learning-;rapid conditioning to unpleasant smell, taste, or touch. These learning functions play out in cells called D2 recept… [+4520 chars]
On the morning of 15 February 2013, a research team in central Europe was preparing its final recommendations to a United Nations subcommittee on establishing an international response mechanism to p… [+5725 chars]
We are carbon-based life forms. That means the basis for the chemical compounds that forms our life is the element carbon. It’s crucial because it bonds with other elements such as hydrogen and oxyge… [+5743 chars]
NASA announced late last week that the long-awaited mission to Psyche, a nearby metal-rich asteroid, will not launch this year. The next possible launch windows for the spacecraft are in 2023 and 202… [+2802 chars]