NASA's next-generation space telescope has completed tests of another science instrument, bringing it another step closer to starting formal operations. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope … [+3451 chars]
Soft matter is an important class of materials that typically consists of colloidal particles and/or polymers in a liquid medium. For certain compositions, these types of systems tend to (micro-)phas… [+3787 chars]
Way back in the Eocene Period , there was a swamp in what is now Germany. Back then, 45 million years ago to be precise, the swamp was rather ordinary, but today it draws paleontologists from around… [+4947 chars]
NASA has revealed details of how it is planning to bring samples from Mars to Earth. According to an update posted on the space agency's website, the compact, lightweight Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) wi… [+2224 chars]
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are stil… [+4369 chars]
A citizen scientist investigated NSF’s NOIRLab’s library of 4 billion celestial objects, NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2, to discover brown dwarfs with partners. His thorough research yielded 34 ultracoo… [+2929 chars]
For the function of many biomolecules, their three-dimensional structure is crucial. Researchers are therefore not only interested in the sequence of the individual building blocks of biomolecules, b… [+3943 chars]
University of Adelaide experts are trying to unlock the secrets of dark matter, which makes up 84% of the matter in the universe, but we know little about it. Researchers are using a new tool that co… [+3522 chars]
In this week’s breaking space news: CAPSTONE mission was lost and found again, James Webb gets another stunning image, Mars plane can follow Ingenuity, a mystery of first quasars possibly solved, inc… [+5358 chars]
Universe has thousands of mysteries that are yet to be discovered, however, our scientists and researchers keep on studying and discovering new facts that often leave us surprised. In a recent develo… [+1661 chars]
A study on the launcher titled "An Explosively Driven Launcher Capable of 10 km/s Projectile Velocities" has been accepted for publication into the journal Shock Waves. Engineers from McGill Univers… [+1728 chars]
Physicists at the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment announced the results from their dark matter detector's first scientific run. The LZ detector is the world's most sensitive dark matter detector and the… [+3513 chars]