The handwritten journal pages of Israel's first astronaut have been added to the country's national library in Jerusalem, more than 20 years after they were found among the debris from the NASA tragedy that claimed his life.Ilan Ramon wrote most of the diary while he was in orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia, serving...
Japanese billionaire gets ready for December space missionA forthcoming flight to space by a Japanese billionaire will allow the public to have a closer look at life on board the International Space Station,...
Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years...
Economist Mariana Mazzucato likes to describe the investment world as a landscape; a “bumpy and complex one,” as she puts it. Government’s job—when government is visionary and well-run and not dogmatically following...
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...
A new study reveals that azoles, the most widely-used antifungals, cause fungal pathogens to self-destruct by triggering cellular “suicide” programs. This discovery, which details...
I've been wrestling with how to record myself delivering Powerpoint slideshows, as research has shown that your audience is more engaged when they can...
The SPECULOOS project, led by the astronomer Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège, has just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an...
This ghostly image features a distant and pulsating red giant star known as R Sculptoris. Situated 1200 light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor,...
History Repeats Itself
Russia operates a constellation of satellites in high Earth orbit called Meridian (меридиан). These satellites perform a critical communications purpose for...
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The joint European-Japanese EarthCARE satellite has begun its mission to improve our understanding of Earth’s climate Tuesday, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon...