On April 15, planetary scientist and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will launch to the International Space Station and, as such, will likely be in space when the agency's Artemis 1 mission launches t… [+7195 chars]
China's first Mars orbiter is keeping tabs on multiple robots on the Red Planet's surface. The Tianwen 1 orbiter recently captured photos of the Zhurong rover, its partner on the Tianwen 1 Mars miss… [+3341 chars]
Enlarge/ Astra's LV0009 takes off from Kodiak Island, Alaska, on March 15. 39 with 22 posters participating Welcome to Edition 4.36 of the Rocket Report! As I took last week off for Spring Break, t… [+7755 chars]
The way electrons flow in materials determine its electronic properties. For example, when a voltage is sustained across a conducting material, electrons start flowing, generating an electrical curre… [+4705 chars]
A tiny problem Scientists can grow nanocrystals out of many different materials: metals, semiconductors, and magnets will each yield different properties. But the trouble was that whenever they trie… [+3333 chars]
Hubble has photographed a massive spiral galaxy that lies about 60 million light-years from Earth. Despite its size, it’s far from the largest celestial object known to astronomers. The photo was c… [+2376 chars]
There may be an arctic ocean under Europa’s frozen crust where saltwater is delivering oxygen, which might help support extraterrestrial biology, reported a group of experts. In their model, oxygen … [+1719 chars]
In the first year of its scientific operations, the James Webb Space Telescope will study small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, look for the oldest stars in the universe or peer inside mysterious re… [+4458 chars]
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Experimental design. a Computational framework to select regions and perturbation sites. b Heatmap of motif instances in the assayed regions (left); distribution of the number of motifs perturbed in … [+5375 chars]
Young children are not just cheeky monkeys it turns out they actually laugh like chimpanzees, too. That's because both babies and chimps chuckle while inhaling and exhaling, unlike adult humans who … [+3545 chars]
Astronomers are spotting near-Earth objects more frequently. NASA The same astronomer who recently discovered a small asteroid just a few hours before it smashed into our atmosphere has spotted ano… [+1384 chars]
