When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are alike. Some galaxies are "quenched," meaning they have run out of the gas needed to form stars and produce very few new ones. Others, like the M...

During its traversal of the Kuiper Belt, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft enabled an international astronomy team to successfully perform the first demonstration of deep-space stellar navigation. The r...

An interdisciplinary research team, including Professor Mitch Clemon from the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is studying radiator cool...

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE, also known as "Wukong") collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10GeV/n to 8TeV/n and, for the first ti...

NASA's latest astrophysics space telescope, SPHEREx, successfully launched in March and has now entered low-Earth orbit, officially beginning its mission to map the entire sky. The telescope delivers...

Scientists on NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. These images were captured by the spacecr...

In an office with gray carpeting at the University of Colorado Boulder, a three-wheeled robot named "Armstrong" is using its robotic arm to grasp plastic blocks. What appears to be an ordinary scene...

According to China Aero Engine Corporation (AECC), on July 1, a 3D-printed ultra-simplified lightweight miniature turbojet engine, independently developed by AECC Hunan Aero Engine Research Institute,...

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, carrying the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission instrument, has been encapsulated in the Falcon 9 payload fairing and successfully launched at 23:0...

Meet "Bille", the world's first monostatic tetrahedron: no matter its starting position, it always ends up resting on the same face. This breakthrough in geometry and engineering has solved a nearl...

Since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, operators have continuously treated cooling water using the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) to remove radioactive substances exc...

The China National Space Administration released images of Earth and the Moon taken in orbit by the planetary exploration mission Tianwen-2 probe on Tuesday (July 1). According to China News Service,...