Category: 7. Science

Dark matter may not have been ‘cold’ in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as long believed; instead, new research from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and the Universit’e Paris-Saclay suggests dark matter particles could…

WASHINGTON — A key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) that was damaged last fall is expected to remain offline until May, before being taken out of service again later this year for major upgrades.

The DSS-14 antenna, a…

Humanity is still in the early stages of exploring the cosmos, with Artemis 2 preparing to take us back to the moon and then onwards to Mars. But if NASA’s progress is a little pedestrian for you, then “Elite Dangerous” is the game for…

Title: Probing ionized bubbles around luminous sources during reionization with SKA 21-cm observations

Authors: Arnab Mishra, Kanan K. Datta, Chandra Shekhar Murmu, Samir Choudhuri, Iffat Nasreen, and Snehasish Saha

First author…

At the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, which took place in Tucson, Arizona, Spectroscopy sat down with Ken Marcus, a Robert Adger Bowen Professor of Chemistry at Clemson University, to talk about his research (1–2).

Marcus is an…

Inspired by a technique that allowed astronomers to image a black hole, scientists at the University of Connecticut developed a lens-free image sensor that achieves sub-micron 3D resolution, promising to transform fields from forensics to…

56 million years ago, the Earth was already warm. ‘As a result, there was a lot of vegetation, even at high latitudes. That means that a lot of carbon was stored in, for example, vast coniferous forests.’ Biologist Mei Nelissen is…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

For the first time in 25 years of continuous crewed operations, an astronaut has been medically…