A Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, including visuals of its south pole, after circling the planet more than 1300 times since early last year, state media reports. C… [+1064 chars]
File image by Joseph Keil Five co-existing multidrug-resistant isolates of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae were identified in a mare affected by pneumonia following surgery. K. pneumoniae is a … [+5792 chars]
High in the Himalayas, a new telescope is set to observe the night sky. The contraption has a 4-metre (3.96 m) lens, but heres the kicker: its made of liquid mercury, a material seldom used for astro… [+2501 chars]
by Marty Silk, AAP Brisbane One of the world’s oldest living cultures is helping scientists understand galaxies and stars with the launch of the first of three NASA rockets from the Northern Territo… [+1689 chars]
In order to protect the Earth, some sacrifices must be made. NASAs DART spacecraft is currently on its way to a binary asteroid system known as Didymos and will essentially crash into one tiny astero… [+3194 chars]
The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. Lachie from Melbourne wants to know how the Moon, being so far away, affects the tides on Earth. An expert explai… [+3178 chars]
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from th… [+5305 chars]
If you've been laying in bed at night, fretting that the planets of the Solar System are going to go ricocheting off throughout the galaxy, you can set your mind at ease. We have at least 100,000 ye… [+3967 chars]
In the fall of 2023, a U.S. rover will land at the south pole of the moon. Its mission: to explore the water ice that scientists know lurks within the lunar shadows, and which they believe could help… [+6465 chars]
Northrup Grummans Cygnus cargo spacecraft conducted a successful reboost of the International Space Station over the past weekend, on Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Cygnus NG-17 Piers Sellers is the fi… [+4403 chars]
Antimony-based substances have good prospects as anode materials in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) because of their great hypothetical capacity. Unfortunately, the high volumetric growth and limited ion… [+5749 chars]
