NASA Satellites Show Hurricane Florence Strengthening
NASA satellites are providing a lot of different kinds of data to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center to help them understand what’s happening Hurricane…
NASA satellites are providing a lot of different kinds of data to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center to help them understand what’s happening Hurricane…
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on September 15, 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant’s atmosphere, but the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
Picking up a pen off a desk and writing with it might seem easy to you, but it’s no small feat to a robot. For…
A study by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team finds that neurogenesis — inducing the production of new neurons — in the brain structure…
Gravity is so much a part of our daily lives that it is all too easy to forget its awesome power — but on a…
New research shows that phosphorus, which is vital to life but somewhat rare, condensed inside asteroids in the outer Solar System before moving back towards…
Apart from a billion Milky Way stars, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft also observes extragalactic objects. Its automated alert system notifies astronomers whenever Gaia spots a transient…
A new technique will open up research possibilities across the fields of nanoscience and nanophysics. Physicists at the University of Bath have discovered how to…
Much of modern Western medicine is based upon the treatment of acute, immediate harm, from physical injury to infections, from broken bones and the common…
Bright surface features on the dwarf planet Ceres known as faculae were first discovered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in 2015. This mosaic of one such…
The scientists of the Inter-University Department of Space Research of Samara University presented a prototype of a propulsion system for the maneuvering nanosatellite SamSat-M. The…
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida. In 2006, the International Astronomical…
Revealing Solar System Time Capsules, Breaking Engineering Barriers NASA’s Dawn mission is drawing to a close after 11 years of breaking new ground in planetary…
Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic “wind” of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was…
The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions generate periodic oscillations with a period proportional to the star’s…
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location…
Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a pond of slush on Canada’s Lowell Glacier. Mauri Pelto, a…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy 300 million light years from…