Title: Constraining the Planet Occurrence Rate around Halo Stars of Potentially Extragalactic Origin Authors: Stephanie Yoshida, Samuel Grunblatt, Adrian Price-Whelan First Authors Institution: Dep… [+4896 chars]
A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices Laboratory (AMMLab) have developed new kind of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes in true three-dimensional shapes… [+4064 chars]
Bright turquoise plumes ripple through the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, like waves in the ocean in a spellbinding new view shared by NASA. The venerable Hubble Space Tel… [+2129 chars]
Untethered microrobots have great potential as they could play an important role in areas such as precision medicine, imaging, antibiotic alternatives, and environmental monitoring and clean up, amon… [+3386 chars]
On July 20, 53 years after Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind, NASA announced target launch dates for the Artemis I mission, the agency's long-awaited first ste… [+3116 chars]
If you think dead spider robots are something straight out of a horror movie (or your worst nightmares), I have some news for you. Mechanical engineers from Rice University have actually turned spid… [+3924 chars]
There is promising new work underway to pursue a deep space robotic interstellar mission. Called Interstellar Probe, this venture could capture a unified view of our heliosphere, out into nearby in… [+7014 chars]
Under global warming, the rising temperature will exert profound impacts on forest ecosystems. How forest ecosystems respond to climate warming will determine forest trajectories over the next 100 ye… [+2343 chars]
The launch of South Korea's first moon mission is just a week away. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, or KPLO for short, is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket next Tuesday (Aug. 2… [+6161 chars]
2018 Perseids meteor shower with the Milky way, taken in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Alps. ... [+] Shooting stars are stacked according to their positions in the sky to show the (oppisite) radiant.… [+4279 chars]
Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a study led … [+5830 chars]
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