Science

NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover is seen here in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA/Helen Arase Vargas

NASA Seeks Industry and Partner Engagement for Utilizing VIPER Moon Rover

In alignment with its mission to develop a comprehensive and sustainable lunar exploration initiative that benefits humanity, NASA has released a Request for Information (RFI) on Friday. The purpose of this RFI is to solicit interest from U.S.-based companies and academic institutions

4 weeks ago

Science

A Transit of Mercury Happens Nov. 11

The sky will put on a show Nov. 11 when Mercury journeys across the Sun. The event, known as a transit, occurs when Mercury passes directly between Earth and the Sun. From our perspective on Earth, Mercury will look like a tiny black

2 months ago

Artist’s concept of the Earth drawn from data from multiple satellite missions and created by a team of NASA scientists and graphic artists. Credit: NASA Images By Reto Stöckli, Based On Data From NASA And NOAA

Science

NASA Advances Climate Resilience with Updated Adaptation Plan

In a bid to fortify federal operations against climate change impacts, NASA has released its upgraded Climate Adaptation Plan, joining forces with over 20 other federal agencies. This development further bolsters the Biden-Harris Administration’s pursuit for widespread resilience to climate change. The

3 months ago

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgement: L. Shatz

Science

The Stunning Spiral: Hubble Captures the Intricate Beauty of Galaxy IC 4633, Hidden Within a Sea of Dust

The subject of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation Apus. IC 4633 is a galaxy rich in star-forming activity and also hosts an active galactic

5 months ago

Science

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy Of Technology And Power, 1500-2025 Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan

Fondazione Prada presents an exhibition titled “Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025” by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler from 23 November 2023 to 29 January 2024 at the Osservatorio, its space located at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.

10 months ago

Science

Dinosaurs from Patagonia | Exhibition at CosmoCaixa Science Museum | Barcelona

The exhibition created by the MEF will be open to the public at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, where it can be seen until 2 June 2024

10 months ago

Art·Science

ARTECHOUSE Brings Cinematic Art Exhibition Beyond the Light to Washington, DC

Submerging Audiences in NASA’s Scientific Discoveries & Galactical Data from James Webb Space Telescope

12 months ago

Science

Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor Galaxy

The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, is a ghostly assemblage of stars which resembles a sparkling cloud. Other distant galaxies and foreground

1 year ago

Science

Webb captures detailed beauty of Ring Nebula | Behold

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the well-known Ring Nebula with unprecedented detail. Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is an archetypal planetary nebula. The object is also

1 year ago

Science

TAU Systems Upgrades University of Texas Tabletop Laser to a Peak Power of 40 Terawatts and Debuts its Particle Accelerator

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — TAU Systems, the producer of ultrafast, compact laser-plasma accelerators, today announced the successful upgrade of the existing University of Texas Tabletop Terawatt Laser (UT3), to a new and improved performance for powering a compact particle accelerator. The upgraded UT3 driver laser

1 year ago

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. The image was taken to celebrate the first anniversary of the start of science operations for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Science

How the James Webb Telescope can “see back in time”

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can’t actually “go back in time” in the traditional sense. However, it can see objects that are so far away that the light from them has taken billions of years to reach us. This means that

1 year ago

Science

Sinopec Xinjiang Kuqa Green Hydrogen Pilot Project Enters Operation, Leading China’s Green Hydrogen Development

KUQA, China, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386, “Sinopec”) announced that the Green Hydrogen Pilot Project (“Project”) constructed by the company in Kuqa City of Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has commenced operation. The official operation of the

1 year ago

Science

Human Brain Project study offers insights into neurotransmitter receptor organisation

A key challenge in neuroscience is to understand how the brain can adapt to a changing world, even with a relatively static anatomy. The way the brain’s areas are structurally and functionally related to each other – its connectivity – is a

1 year ago

1 2 3 … 7 Next