Starting on Friday (June 17), SpaceX plans to launch three rockets from three different launch pads in three days, beginning with the launch of 53 Starlink broadband satellites from NASAs Kennedy Spa… [+2930 chars]
Wringing wet cloth in space: Astronaut demonstrates water's fascinating property Jun 23, 2022, 10:59 am2 min read A video showing astronaut Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, wringing a w… [+1703 chars]
NASA recently tried conducting an orbital maneuver to change the path of the International Space Station (ISS), but the test soon ended due to undisclosed reasons. The plan was to fire Northrop Grumm… [+1944 chars]
Lucy was launched in October 2021 and is built for the Trojan asteroids. Because of the pull of Jupiter’s enormous gravity, it goes through the gas giant’s orbit ahead of and after the behemoth. In 2… [+1220 chars]
TU Delft scientists provide insight into the limitations of super-resolution microscopy and offer a new calculation method to determine maximum resolution. The major precision improvements previously… [+3997 chars]
On March 17, 2015, a blood-red arc of light cut through the sky hundreds of miles above New Zealand. Over the next half hour, an amateur skywatcher observed that arc as it transformed before his eyes… [+4092 chars]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team of astronomers, in collaboration with other astronomers around the world, has managed to identify two rocky planets orbiting the star HD 260655. T… [+2009 chars]
A laser mode sensor development by gravitational-wave scientists at the University of Western Australia could be the key to probing beneath the surface of neutron stars. The breakthrough may help res… [+5106 chars]
The deletion of the Wt1 gene during the early stages of the embryonic reproductive organ formation leads to differences in sex development in adult mice, according to an article published in the jour… [+3246 chars]
<ul><li>NEWS AND VIEWS</li><li>22 June 2022</li></ul> To understand the nature of cohesion in any system, you have to push the system until it breaks. In the case of atomic nuclei, this means knowin… [+1367 chars]
Phosphorylation is the process in living cells in which a phosphate group is attached to one of the building blocks of a protein. “These modifications of proteins function like an on-off switch, so t… [+2729 chars]
The corporation in charge of an aerial astronomical observatory that NASA is shutting down this year wants to conclude the project on a positive note. The Universities Space Research Association (US… [+4057 chars]