Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter The American space agency Nasa has rolled out its giant new Moon rocket to prepare it for a maiden flight. Known as the Space Launch System (SLS… [+4798 chars]
Newswise — Woods Hole, MA — The San Andreas Fault in California is renowned for its large and infrequent earthquakes. However, some segments of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) instead are characterized b… [+6773 chars]
In September 2020, researchers announced they had found the molecule phosphine in the atmosphere. On Earth, the molecule is linked to biological activity, aka life. Its presence on Venus was not expe… [+2591 chars]
High-throughput screens The use of Cas13a to recognize difficult pathogens provides an accessible method with high potential for easy adaptation for emerging targets. Successful adaptation, however,… [+23320 chars]
A mathematical model for determining the safety of landing astronauts on Mars has been developed by space medicine experts from The Australian National University (ANU). The team simulated the impa… [+3841 chars]
ByAmerican Institute of PhysicsAugust 17, 2022 Researchers have come up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. Converting carbon dioxide into oxygen … [+4722 chars]
The sun could be sending a storm to Earth over the next few days. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), our fiery star spit out a series of bursts on Sunday that ar… [+2498 chars]
TOKYO: Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission. In a q… [+1937 chars]
The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its final month of operations. The Stratospheric Observatory … [+2033 chars]
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Aquila is a constellation visible in the northern hemisphere during late summer months and into early autumn. Aquila's brightest star is Altair, but it also contains notable stars such as Tarazed, A… [+4690 chars]
A team of neurophysicists, led by Malte Brammerloh of MPI CBS, found evidence that the identification of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sign for Parkinson's diagnosis, as a specific anatomical re… [+2981 chars]