SMILE Satellite Marks New Chapter in China’s Space Science Development—-Chinese Academy of Sciences
An illustration of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) satellite in orbit. (Photo by ESA) The…
A spacecraft no larger than a small car, launched the year Star Wars came out, is still moving outward at 38,000 miles per hour far beyond the orbit of Pluto — and the radio signals it sends home, traveling at the speed of light, now take more than 23 hours to reach the engineers who built it, most of whom are no longer alive
Voyager 1 has been in flight for longer than most of the people on Earth have been alive.…
Water microdroplets convert aniline to pyridine in green skeletal editing reaction
Water microdroplets are the latest addition to the skeletal editing toolbox. Powered by nothing more than a fine…
50 Days To A Total Solar Eclipse — Where And When To Experience It
Topline A rare and spectacular total solar eclipse is now just weeks away. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026,…
The Sky Today on Tuesday, June 23: Try out the Turtle Nebula
Back to Article List This bluish, oval-shaped planetary nebula in the constellation Hercules is small but easy to…
ESA Open Days 2026 are coming: mark your calendar!
Agency 22/06/2026 194 views 4 likes The ESA Open Days season is almost here and our teams across…
Scientists show quantum mechanics can work without imaginary numbers
A new analysis conducted by researchers at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf and the German Aerospace Center…
Gas-Solid Van Der Waals Interactions Drive Evolution of Surface Nanostructures—-Chinese Academy of Sciences
The gas-induced structural evolution of solid surfaces remains a critical focus in heterogeneous catalysis and surface science because…
Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system
More than 4.5 billion years ago, a huge world, potentially as large as the moon or even Mars,…
Darwin’s bark spider spins the toughest biological material yet measured, a silk more than ten times tougher than Kevlar, and strings its web across rivers on bridge lines up to 25 meters long
A spider in Madagascar makes a thread that outperforms anything in the materials labs of the human world.…
Africa: Oxygen Atoms in 15-Million-Year-Old Giant Eggshells Reveal How Plants Reacted to a Hotter Earth – Study
Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space
NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is back in operation aboard the International Space Station, giving researchers a powerful…