Category: 7. Science

MILAN — The French-German aerospace company The Exploration Company completed mock splashdown tests for its Nyx space capsule, a modular, reusable spacecraft designed to transport cargo and eventually crew to low Earth orbit and beyond….

The origins of the building blocks of life may be even more widespread than we realized, as per a new discovery from the asteroid sample NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back to Earth from the space rock Bennu.

At least 14 of the 20 amino acids…

For the third time this month and 12th since the start of the year, SpaceX has expanded its Starlink network with a new batch of low Earth orbit satellites.

On Wednesday (Feb. 11), the commercial spaceflight company sent 25 more of its broadband…

Most earthquakes begin in the Earth’s crust, along familiar fault lines that shift and grind beneath our feet. But scientists have now discovered that some earthquakes start much deeper – far below the crust, inside the mantle beneath…

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Sarah Al-Ahmed:
Scientists are using Apollo Moon samples to trace the origin of Earth’s water, this week on Planetary Radio. I’m Sarah Al-Ahmed of The Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. How did…

Researchers are developing novel techniques to analyse galaxy images using phase space, potentially unlocking new insights into dark matter and cosmological structures. Shun Arai from the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles…

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe electrons as “flowing” in an “electric…