This artist’s impression shows an ultra-hot exoplanet, a planet beyond our Solar System, as it is about to transit in front of its host star. When the light from the star passes through the planet’s atmosphere, it is filtered by the chemical elements and molecules in the gaseous layer. With sensitive instruments, the signatures...
Credit: © fox17 / stock.adobe.com Researchers at the University of Chicago have found a means to produce a material that resembles plastic yet conducts electricity more like a metal. Like a metal? The research, released on Oct. 26 in Nature, shows how to produce a sort of material wherein the molecular fragments are shuffled and disordered but...
The Arecibo Observatory’s 305-metre-wide telescope dish partially collapsed in late 2020, after some supporting cables had snapped. Credit: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty After one world-famous radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed 2 years back, many scientists hoped that the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), which runs the facility, would eventually build...
An artist's impression of the LOFTID aeroshell. Credit: NASA just recently turned one sci-fi technology into reality by crashing a spacecraft into one asteroid with its Dual Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. Now, the space company aims to test a large inflatable aeroshell that can one day be used to deploy massive payloads on Mars...
Surface features of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft’s Sept. 29, 2022, flyby. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI The highest-resolution photo NASA's Juno objective has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter's moon Europa shows a detailed view of a puzzling region of the...
A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid blasts off on Monday. After NASA deliberately crushes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid the following week, it´ll be up to European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and discover the secrets of these potentially devastating space rocks. NASA's Dual Asteroid Redirection...
Charged gases escapes from Comet Leonard forming a tail, December 2021. This image took top prize in the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Credit: Gerald Rhemann, Royal Museums Greenwich, Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. First place...
The United States is returning to the Moon 60 years after JFK's famous speech. On September 12, 1962, United States president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put one man on the Moon by the decade's end. It was the height of the Cold War, and also America needed a huge victory...
Abstract illustration of atoms passing through water and an electrified membrane under a shining sun. Credit: Meenesh Singh A group of scientists led by Meenesh Singh at the College of Illinois Chicago has discovered a way to convert 100% carbon dioxide from the industrial exhaust into ethylene, a fundamental building block for plastic products. Their findings...
Voyager’s high-gain antenna, seen at the center of this illustration of the NASA spacecraft, is one component controlled by the attitude articulation and control system (AACS). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Engineers have repaired a concern affecting information from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. Back this year, the probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS), that keeps Voyager 1's antenna...
