A custom-built test chamber for a new NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,… [+2237 chars]
Chirality describes a molecule that can't be superimposed on its own mirror image. Two geometrically different chiral molecules of the same formula, distinguished by the R- and S- configuration, exhi… [+4578 chars]
To put it simply, the universe's most massive known star is less massive than scientists once believed. But even docked a few levels, this staggering ball of gas is still the universe's most massive … [+5420 chars]
Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur fossil that looks like an armored T-Rex. The new fossils were discovered in the Candeleros Formation in Argentina. Scientists have named this new dinosaur Ja… [+2297 chars]
The dazzling beauty of a snowflake is testament to the amazing shapes water can form below freezing point. Placed under pressure, the elegant dance of the H2O molecule contorts into something bizarr… [+3847 chars]
Sample preparation Polycrystalline La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 was synthesised by a solid-state reaction. Stoichiometric amounts of pre-dried La2O3 (99.99%, Sigma Aldrich), BaCO3 (99.95%, Alfa Aesar), and Cu… [+21761 chars]
With NASA's Artemis 1 mission launching to the moon this month, Space.com is taking a look at what we know about the moon and why we care. Join us for our Moon Week special report in the countdown to… [+6033 chars]
Space, the final frontier. But as any good frontiersman knows, you can’t explore on an empty stomach. Eventually, then, we will have to grow food in space for astronauts to dine on — but what should … [+5668 chars]
NASA released the first images from the James Webb space telescope in July and the spacecraft hasn’t stopped yet. On top of official image releases, the raw data captured by the telescope has yielded… [+2109 chars]
image: As time progresses (top to bottom), the system evolves from a single configuration into two distinctly different ones, reflected in the splitting into two peaks.view more Credit: ETH Zurich … [+4483 chars]
NEW YORK — Every second we’re alive, we’re moving through time. How people perceive the “flow of time” is from the past to the present to the future, moving in one direction like an arrow. Scientists… [+2891 chars]
The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of our close primate relatives. Some … [+5149 chars]
