NASA's Perseverance rover has been a massive asset for the space agency as it has come up with brilliant pictures from Mars. The pictures have played a huge role in scientists determining the surroun… [+1466 chars]
A team of astronomers using the Chinese Insight-HXMT x-ray telescope have made a direct measurement of the strongest magnetic field in the known universe. The magnetic field belongs to a magnetar cur… [+1960 chars]
It has been an exciting week with the release of breathtaking photos of our Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Images such as the one below give us a chance to see faint distant galax… [+5483 chars]
A team led by scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created unprecedentedly lightweight optics for X-ray space telescopes, breaking the traditional trade-off between angular resolution a… [+2975 chars]
Most of the objects we can see in space, such as stars and planets, are spherical, yet does this also apply to the universe as a whole? Is the universe also spherical, or is it some other shape? Ther… [+2813 chars]
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Twenty-three years ago, Colette Lepage graduated from Lakehead University with a degree in chemical engineering. Now she is reflecting on how what she learned at Lakehead helped … [+3590 chars]
From a young age, astrophysicist Robin Cook had a deep desire to understand the world around him. "It was never good enough to accept things at face value I always wanted to understand the inner wor… [+5348 chars]
Since its creation, artificial intelligence has taken steps that have placed it far ahead of other technologies, especially when it comes to processing huge amounts of data. However, as sophisticate… [+2437 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope might be getting all the news headlines this week, but the grand old dame of the space telescope world, the Hubble Space Telescope, continues to peer out into the cosmo… [+1977 chars]
With the release of the James Webb Space Telescope's first images on July 12 (and a sneaky reveal by US President Joe Biden on July 11), NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency proved the $10 billion… [+9041 chars]
Space travel is having a real moment. From billionaires rocketing themselves to the edge of earth's atmosphere, to companies launching futuristic balloons that will soon safely float people to new he… [+2613 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJuly 17, 2022 MIT engineers design new surface treatments that make water boil more efficiently. New surface treatments could save energy for sy… [+8550 chars]