A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope...
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has long been at the forefront of scientific research and policy recommendations in the United States. In the realm of space exploration, the Academy has...
Employing massive data sets collected through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a research team led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astronomer is unearthing clues to conditions existing in the early universe.
The team has catalogued...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
By Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign June 6, 2024Aspergillus flavus is uniquely adapted to survive in...
As the commercial space industry continues to expand, spaceports are emerging as critical infrastructure for enabling access to space. While launch services remain...
Carbon capture must quadruple by 2050 to meet climate targets: report
By Mathilde DUMAZET
Paris (AFP) June 4, 2024
By 2050, humanity must durably remove four...
Researchers at the University of Houston, led by Navin Varadarajan, have discovered a new subset of T cells, termed CD8-fit, which are associated with...
Recent research shows that high BMI negatively affects brain health, causing smaller brain volume and increased brain lesions, particularly in younger and older adults,...
HELSINKI — Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer has secured fresh funding for its reusable Tianlong-3 rocket, targeting launch contracts for megaconstellation plans.
Space Pioneer—full name...