Hello, lovelies, and welcome to your favorite space news breakdown. This week, it’s mostly planets and geopolitics, with relatively little launch news. Shall we? SpaceX Next Crew Launch Delayed By D… [+7414 chars]
On the second anniversary of the launch of China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission, its orbiter shared a stunning image of the biggest moon on the red planet, Phobos. This is a result of the high-resolution c… [+1668 chars]
A new device splits and recombines a laser beam as it passes through a gas to collect information about the chemicals in that gas. Breathe in the vapors wafting from your morning cup of coffee and y… [+5133 chars]
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A parsec is a unit of distance that is often used by astronomers as an alternative to the light-year, just as kilometers can be used as an alternative to miles. Sci-fi franchises such as "Star Wars" … [+4494 chars]
Figure 1 shows examples of the Brillouin scattering spectra obtained at different temperatures in the cooling process and the frequency range of±75 GHz. In Fig. 1a, two modes are clearly visible. The… [+13119 chars]
NASA's search for life on Mars has been in fast mode for the last 25 years! Back in 1997, NASA's Pathfinder mission landed on the surface of Mars for the first time and it took some stunning images o… [+1937 chars]
NASAs upcoming Mars Sample Return mission plan just received a glow-up: it will now carry a pair of twin helicopters, each capable of retrieving samples and delivering them to the ascent vehicle for … [+4760 chars]
Astronomers have witnessed a rare and important life event in the evolution of binary star couplings for the first time. The team discovered a tight binary star surrounded by an expanding shell of … [+3416 chars]
The Advanced WAKEfield Experiment (AWAKE) is a large experiment carried out at CERN that investigates plasma wakefield acceleration. It is the first research effort in this field to use a relativisti… [+5550 chars]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most o… [+2570 chars]
Using an innovative microscopy method, scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT observed how newborn neurons struggle to reach their proper places in advanced human brain ti… [+5836 chars]
