Clean Space Initiative to Target Orbital Debris
Scheduled to be implemented by 2015, the Clean Space initiative aims to reduce the environmental effect of Europe’s space activities, cutting waste and pollution on…
Scheduled to be implemented by 2015, the Clean Space initiative aims to reduce the environmental effect of Europe’s space activities, cutting waste and pollution on…
A new study details how researchers used injections of non-depleting antibodies to reverse the onset of Type I diabetes in mice genetically bred to develop…
A new image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory shows Vela C, a massive star nursery that is 2,300 light-years from the Sun…
Developed by engineers at the Wyss Institute, a new biomimetic strategy delivers life-saving nanotherapeutics directly to obstructed blood vessels, dissolving blood clots before they cause…
First seen by the NASA Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1983, the dusty disk around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652 has disappeared, leaving…
While studying the brightness of stars in near-infrared light, a team of astronomers discovered several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the…
A new study from biological engineers at MIT looks at how cells alter their chemical modification of molecules, known as transfer RNA (tRNA), to survive…
Scientists estimated that several large impact events on Mars could have launched significant amounts of Martian material into space, leading them to believe that if…
To much fanfare and a packed press room, CERN physicists announced in the early morning of July 4th the discovery of a new particle that…
Set to launch in 2014, NASA is planning the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to study X-points or electron diffusion regions, places where the magnetic field of…
Scientists are working on a directional dark matter detector that will use strands of DNA and gold in order to detect the elusive non-baryonic matter….
Scientists have been monitoring radio signals from the galaxy Arp 220, located 250 million light years from Earth, and now believe the radio emissions may…
Using computer simulations, engineers at MIT have developed a new graphene-based desalination system that uses sheets of graphene with precisely sized holes, improving permeability and…
Using three different telescopes, scientists found evidence of a pulsar moving at a speed between 5.4 million and 6.5 million miles per hour at a…
By using spray-painted layers, each representing the components in a traditional battery, researchers at Rice University have developed lithium-ion batteries with consistent capacities that can…
With the latest results from ATLAS and CMS set to be announced on July 4, there is a lot of speculation and excitement about what…
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
While working with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of scientists showed that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing…