Europe is looking to emulate NASA’s groundbreaking commercial cargo program
Increase / A rendering of Thales Alenia Space’s proposed European re-entry cargo vehicle. Thales Alecia Space The European Space Agency has awarded initial contracts to...
Apex, the largest stegosaur fossil ever found, is going up for auction
In May 2022, Jason Cooper, a commercial paleontologist, was walking with a friend on his property near the aptly named Dinosaur City in Colorado and...
Asteroid ‘Dinky’, visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, has given birth to its own moon
Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary month orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkineshwhich was the first space station for NASA Lucy spacecraft. That...
ORNL discovers the properties of promethium by researching rare radioactive elements
Nearly 80 years after scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered an extremely rare radioactive element called promethium, a team from the lab has published...
The Euclid Space Telescope found 1.5 trillion orphan stars roaming the Perseus cluster (images)
Using the Euclid Space Telescope, scientists have discovered an incredible 1.5 trillion orphan stars floating through a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of...
Earthcare Cloud Mission to Solve Climate Unknowns Launches
image title, Artwork: It took a full 20 years to send Earthcare into space Article information A sophisticated joint European-Japanese satellite has been launched to...
How scientists shipped the largest astronomical camera from California to Chile
After two decades of work, the camera at the heart of the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory arrived at his home last week. It is...
A revolutionary tool reveals the hidden functions of brain cells
Abstract: Researchers have developed ConVERGD, a tool for precise manipulation of specific cell subpopulations, improving studies of cell diversity. The study demonstrated the utility of...
Dinosaurs had to be cold enough to be warm-blooded
Increase / Later theropods had multiple adaptations to different temperatures. Dinosaurs were once assumed to be ectothermic or cold-blooded, which makes sense given that they...
Decoding the origin of life with lost biochemical clues
Metabolism is the “beating heart of the cell”. New research from ELSI traces the history of metabolism from the primordial Earth to modern times (left...