A NASA spacecraft is on its way to slam into a space rock, but what happens next is still unclear. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ) mission launched in November and will arrive at its d… [+4387 chars]
Enlarge/ Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. 42 with 21 posters participating In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitat… [+2915 chars]
Irradiation with fast protons is a more effective and less invasive cancer treatment than X-rays. However, modern proton therapy requires large particle accelerators, which has experts investigating … [+4291 chars]
The race for space has quietly intensified in parallel with the geopolitical competition unfolding here on Earth. China, for example, has made great strides in its space programs and is looking to ta… [+6389 chars]
As a molecular machine found in the cells of all organisms, the ribosome is responsible for making new proteins. It reads the blueprint for a certain protein on a messenger moleculeknown as messenger… [+3532 chars]
image: Astrophysicist Lisa Kewley has been named director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.view more Credit: Cristy Roberts/ASTRO 3D Cambridge, Mass. – Lisa J. Kewley has… [+5044 chars]
Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very larg… [+4705 chars]
Data We used seven SMILEs: CESM1-CAM551 (including 40 ensemble members), CSIRO-Mk3-6-052 (30), CanESM253 (50), EC-EARTH54 (16), GFDL-CM355 (20), GFDL-ESM2M56 (30) and MPI-ESM57 (100). Monthly temper… [+22326 chars]
Scientists first thought that having a thinner nearside crust allowed magma in the Moons mantle to ascend and volcanically erupt on the surface more easily than the farside, explaining the nearsides … [+2722 chars]
We remember it in 2016, to celebrate the 55th birthdayAnd the Trip memory Yuri Gagarin On April 12, 1961, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced – with the support of Stephen Hawking – He was laun… [+5575 chars]
Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky! The number pi, that is. It's March 14, or 3-14,… [+1007 chars]
Scientists first thought that having a thinner nearside crust allowed magma in the Moons mantle to ascend and volcanically erupt on the surface more easily than the farside, explaining the nearsides … [+2722 chars]
