On 20 March, specialists filled the European-Chinese Smile mission with fuel ahead of its launch on a Vega-C rocket on 9 April. Smile has four fuel tanks, making the bulbous
On 20 March, specialists filled the European-Chinese Smile mission with fuel ahead of its launch on a Vega-C rocket on 9 April. Smile has four fuel tanks, making the bulbous
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Eimission spectra of 3I/ATLAS taken with BFOSC and YFOSC. For clarity, the full spectral range is divided into three panels with different vertical offsets to emphasize specific features. The left
In his blockbuster 1982 novel “Space”, the writer James A. Michener wove a gripping tale of astronauts trapped on the Moon during a major solar storm. Warnings from Earth didn’t
A Map of CTD downcast events on which metagenomics samples were taken, colored according to the number of samples taken on the cast. — Nature Communications The researchers analyzed DNA
This pair of images shows stars observed Feb. 6, 2026, by the SPARCS space telescope simultaneously in the near-ultraviolet, left, and far-ultraviolet, right. The fact that one star is seen
We’re starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth exoplanet discovery in the LHS 1903 system made
A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) micrograph of a SiGe transistor for use on ocean worlds. This SiGe IC is built from large numbers of micron-sized (10^-6 m) SiGe transistors to
MILAN – Officina Stellare, an Italian manufacturer of advanced opto-mechanical systems, has signed a 1.84 million euro ($2.0 million) contract with the Barcelona-based Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), the company
When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in “The Empire Strikes Back,” and we often hear how they






