Category: 7. Science

“Each spacecraft was loaded with propellant to match launch mass and subjected to vibration testing in all three axes. The objective was to make the simulated vibrations as true to the conditions of launch as possible,” said Jim Lux, SunRISE…

NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program released a new dashboard that lets authorized users submit and track proposals for yet-to-be-collected data from CSDA’s commercial partners. 

The Data Acquisition Request System…

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have produced the unprecedented high-resolution images of 24 debris disks — the dusty belts left after planets finish forming — revealing the dynamic, transitional…

The secret behind the formation of super-Earth and sub-Neptune exoplanets has been revealed, thanks to a study of four young planets that are evaporating.

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23…

It’s one of the most eye-catching objects in the Universe, but now astronomers have identified an unexpected…

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states—being in multiple places and configurations all at once, defined mathematically by…

In contemporary China, an increasing number of names draw inspiration from Chinese history and classical texts. From high-tech products to newborns, names offer a window into the nation’s rich cultural heritage and ongoing…

High-precision oxygen isotopes in Apollo lunar soils reveal a persistent impactor fingerprint, showing that impacts contributed only a tiny fraction of Earth’s water

WASHINGTON and…