Ring of Firepower: Electric Hall Thruster for NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Propulsion
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, set to launch in August 2022, will travel to its target in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter under the…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, set to launch in August 2022, will travel to its target in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter under the…
The destination of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defense – a tiny asteroid moonlet – has finally received its official name. After years of informal…
Herd immunity to COVID-19 could be achieved with fewer people being infected than previously estimated according to new research. Mathematicians from the University of Nottingham…
The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning the details to building real pieces of the spacecraft puzzle. Psyche, the NASA mission…
Stanford scientists find the growth of phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean has increased 57 percent over just two decades, enhancing its ability to soak up…
People making homemade masks might want to reach for a vacuum cleaner filter. It’s intuitive and scientifically shown that wearing a face covering can help…
Researchers tracking the spread of COVID-19 around the world have discovered that viruses with a new variant have now overtaken the original strain Analysis of…
2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed rock dust to farmland…
A previously unrecorded Neolithic monument has been discovered at the ancient settlement of Durrington Walls near Stonehenge. A massive 2km-wide (1.2mi-wide) ring of prehistoric ‘shafts’…
Data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission, managed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fuels the search for these not-quite-planets-but-not-quite-stars. With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers…
As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years. That’s always puzzled scientists, but…
A ringing bell vibrates simultaneously at a low-pitched fundamental tone and at many higher-pitched overtones, producing a pleasant musical sound. A recent study, just published in…
The colossus iceberg that split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017, is now in the open waters of the South Atlantic…
Under consideration to become the next Discovery Program mission, VERITAS would reveal the inner workings of Earth’s mysterious “twin.” Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies…
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean….
A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered…
Catch the comet in the morning sky until July 11, after which you can find it just after sunset until mid-August. A comet visiting from…
Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission. The rover is loaded with equipment to search for signs…