Since September, the Perseverance rover has been picking along an ancient river delta on Mars, its robotic arms reaching out with whirling steel drill bits to core rocks, scoop soil and suck small am… [+7834 chars]
Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy rotation ever observed, implying an early stage of rotational motion development. Image Credit: Waseda University The galaxies appeared first aft… [+4525 chars]
Nature)" width="635" height="357" /> Raman probe: artists impression of laser light (blue wave) scattering from an axial Higgs mode (gold sphere). The wavelength and polarization of the scatte… [+3137 chars]
A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA's plan to land astronauts on the lunar su… [+3331 chars]
Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five "blue blobs" composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Unusually, these stars were completely i… [+1980 chars]
Article content BEIJING China on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NASA that China might take over the moon as part of a military program, saying it has always ca… [+1470 chars]
The imbalance of energy on Earth is the most important metric in order to gauge the size and effects of climate change, according to a new study published today in the first issue of Environmental Re… [+2797 chars]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has selected candidates for its next round of space missions, which are projected to launch between 2026 and 2030. Out of the 13 missions proposed, it is expec… [+3870 chars]
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Twenty-five years ago on July 4, 1997, NASA landed its first rover on Mars and beamed back a photo from the planets surface. In doing so, the agency set up its first on-the-go, vehicular science la… [+7539 chars]
With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 (LRU1) robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy's Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR's famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a… [+3262 chars]
NASA's acclaimed $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was launched on 25 December 2021, in replacement of the Hubble Space telescope. Nearly seven months after its launch has finally produced image… [+5254 chars]
