Category: 7. Science

NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than January 2027 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

“The award of our fifth…

Researchers have tracked a looping fractional charge in ultrathin carbon and seen it return with a consistent interference rhythm.

The result strengthens the case for quantum particles whose collective state can retain a record of earlier…

It is the best of times, and it is (far from, actually,) the worst of time for NASA, with two big astronaut launches converging toward the same week, as a rare Arctic cold front pushes mission schedules into a logistical whirlwind.

It’s a tale…

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow transit in the archival data from NASA’s Kepler extended K2 mission.

We see stars as the main constituent of galaxies. They’re the visible part, and they’re what announce a galaxy’s presence. But a galaxy’s gas supply is its lifeblood, and tracing the gas as it flows in and through a galaxy reveals its…

New research led by University College London paleontologists shows that newly-hatched long-necked giants were prey for multiple carnivores long before Tyrannosaurus rex emerged.

NASA OUTSTANDING PUBLIC LEADERSHIP MEDAL

Awarded…

Order can arise from turbulent motion in space, forming magnetic field patterns that remain stable across stars, planets, and galaxies.

New research explains how those large-scale magnetic fields take shape, pointing to a specific kind of motion…

A Russian satellite once used to inspect other spacecraft appears to have disintegrated in a graveyard orbit high above the Earth, according to ground-based imagery.

The Luch/Olymp satellite, launched in 2014, is one of two secretive military…