[ad_1] The rock-covered surface of the asteroid Bennu, which is now closely mapped by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, before attempting to collect samples next summer. Image: NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona Do you have some free time? NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Managers are looking for scientific citizens to help them count and characterize the … Read more
[ad_1] Mushrooms are so much more than a garnish on your pizza. Although this unpretentious kingdom of organisms may not get the same love or the same respect as plants or animals, they play an incredibly crucial role in the story of life on planet Earth. That's why scientists are so excited to announce the … Read more
[ad_1] The removal of frozen carbon dioxide from the polar ice cap of Mars in spring and summer generates winds that result in the largest sand dune movements observed on the red planet. Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / USGS The wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its … Read more
[ad_1] Photo: Artur Debat (Getty Images) If you still want to travel on Mars, this is your chance. Well, ok, you can not go to Mars but your first name can, and it's as close as possible. The March 2020 rover is preparing to begin its seven-month journey to Mars next July, and NASA has … Read more
[ad_1] HELSINKI – The planned launch of a remote sensing satellite from Taiyuan, in northern China, could have ended in failure, the absence of an official statement suggesting a problem with the mission. Airspace closure notices issued several days in advance indicate that a launch of a Long March rocket since Taiyuan was to take … Read more
[ad_1] An incredibly rare skeleton of the extinct dodo bird should be auctioned tomorrow and it could yield a lot of money, maybe even more than $ 750,000. The auction house Christie's offers the almost complete skeleton of the bird that was once native to Mauritius, an island nation located east of Madagascar. The bird … Read more
[ad_1] Photo archive of a previous launch of Long March 4C from the Taiyuan Space Base. Credit: Xinhua A long-running March 4 Chinese rocket failed to put its secret military charge on Wednesday after launching from the Taiyuan space base southwest of Beijing, according to the official news agency. Xinhua. The three-story rocket took off … Read more
[ad_1] On May 20, SpaceX technicians successfully piled a nose on the prototype of the company's Boca Chica orbital spacecraft. Simultaneously, a separate team of technicians and engineers worked hard at building a second similar prototype but different from Starship near Cape Canaveral, Florida. Confirmed officially by Elon Musk last week, the CEO of SpaceX … Read more
[ad_1] An electron is trapped in a quantum dot formed in a two-dimensional gas of a semiconductor wafer. However, the electron moves in space and, with different probabilities corresponding to a wave function, remains in some places in its confinement (red ellipses). By using the electric fields applied to the gold grids, the geometry of … Read more
[ad_1] There is a striking contrast between the hidden face of the moon and the lower open basins of the Earth. And scientists now think they have solved the lunar mystery of decades. New evidence provided by the NASA space agency now suggests that an old collision between the moon and another celestial object was … Read more