For more than a decade, NASA has been building a new mega-rocket, the Space Launch System or SLS, a $2 billion-plus, bright-orange rocket ship that can carry 70 tons of cargo to orbit. It's also the … [+4870 chars]
ByNorthwestern UniversityJuly 10, 2022 A magnified view of the tiny crab robot, standing on the edge of a coin. Credit: Northwestern University The small robotic crab can walk, bend, twist, turn an… [+5244 chars]
Think of it as a Pandora’s Box of helium-and-hydrogen-producing power, one that we can learn how to harness for the benefit of the deep biosphere on a global scale, Oliver Warr, research associate at… [+3129 chars]
Meteorites hit New Zealand three or four times a year, but the fireball that shot across the sky above Cook Strait last week was unusual. It had the explosive power of 1,800 tonnes of TNT and was ca… [+4003 chars]
NASA’s considering sending swimming robots to space. Photo: Guillermo Ferla/Unsplash Founded in 1958, NASA has made incredible discoveries and advancements in regards to space exploration and aerona… [+2739 chars]
Chinese scientists have discovered nearly 1,000 microbes, bacteria and viruses trapped in the glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau. With global warming, these microorganisms are released and threaten the … [+2130 chars]
There's far too much dust in the universe, compared with what our calculations predict. This major problem for astronomy, called the "dust budget crisis," needs to be solved to better predict dust's… [+3772 chars]
The story of our solar system’s origin is pretty well known. It goes like this: the Sun began as a protostar in its “solar nebula” over 4.5 billion years ago. Over the course of several million years… [+5495 chars]
In 1687 , Sir Isaac Newton published his magnum opus, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which effectively synthesized his theories on motion, velocity, and universal gravitation. In ter… [+10805 chars]
The "most comprehensive studies" of the Higgs boson conducted to date reveal that the particle behaves just as expected and could help unlock some of the greatest mysteries of physics, including the … [+3074 chars]
China Fuyan [facetted eye], a new high-definition deep-space active observation facility in the country's Southwest Chongqing municipality.Photo: courtesy of BIT Chongqing innovation center In a mov… [+5516 chars]
If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fallouts you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were adopt… [+5549 chars]
