NASA Venus mission becomes collateral damage amid budget pressures
NASA’s decision to pull the funding for the modest VERITAS mission to Venus, which was both on track and on budget, in order to accommodate … Read more
Did the most distant galaxy “candidates” survive JWST?
When JWST successfully launched back on Christmas day, 2021, astronomers were hoping it would unfold and operate correctly, which it resoundingly did over the next … Read more
How green is your research? These scientists are cutting their carbon footprints
Astronomical observatories require vast amounts of energy to run.Credit: Getty Michael Inouye, a computational biologist at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia, … Read more
Human cells hacked to act like squid skin cells could unlock key to camouflage – Ars Technica
Enlarge / Certain squid have the ability to camouflage themselves by making themselves transparent and/or changing their coloration. Certain cephalopods like cuttlefish, octopuses, and squid … Read more
Leaky Soyuz spacecraft returns to Earth in speedy landing
A Soyuz space capsule that suffered a major coolant leak in December departed the International Space Station without a crew early Tuesday (March 28) to … Read more
Did we already observe our first “blitzar”? – Ars Technica
Enlarge / The CHIME telescope has proven adept at picking up fast radio bursts. By combing through a collection of data, researchers may have discovered … Read more
Northwest scientists unlock new insights into deep-sea thermal vents, fusion, sneaky waves and more
In this video still collected by a remote-operated vehicle named Jason with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in June 2022, superheated water and nutrients from … Read more
Superconducting Vortices Made Without Magnetic Fields
Niladri Banerjee1 and Jason W. A. Robinson2 1Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK 2Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK … Read more
Astrophotography in April 2023: what to shoot in the night sky this coming month
April 2023 brings an opportunity for perhaps the ultimate shot for any astrophotographer – a total solar eclipse – but only those who are prepared … Read more
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Unveils the Sizzling Secrets of a Distant Rocky Exoplanet
This illustration shows what the hot rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b could look like based on this work. TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost of seven known planets … Read more