New images taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – part of a research project led by UC Riverside’s Gabriela Canalizo – have revealed the wild side of an…
Reported in the Oct. 29 issue of Optics Express, due out Monday, the Cornell team showcases a new design for a “lab-on-a-chip” structure that provides the…
The discovery could dramatically advance the nascent field of spintronics, which focuses on harnessing the magnet-like “spin” property of electrons instead of…
With the conventional theory of gravitation, based on Newton’s ideas and refined by Einstein 92 years ago, dark matter helps to explain the motion of galaxies,…
The STS-120 crew spent their first full day in orbit inspecting the Shuttle’s heat shield to discover if any damage occurred during the climb into orbit….
This is the largest current grant awarded by the EPSRC through responsive mode in the Photonics area as the EPSRC moves towards encouraging the community to…
A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a…
The project is called Cosmology@Home, and is similar to SETI@Home, a popular program that searches radio telescope data for evidence of extraterrestrial…
Astronomy professor Mario Mateo and post-doctoral researcher Matthew Walker measured the velocity of 6,804 stars in seven dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky…
Although these findings need confirmation with further research, the suggestion may provide cosmologists with a long-sought clue about how the infant universe…
The nano centres of the universities in the Øresund Region — University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark and Lund University — together with MC2…
Chang’e-1 represents the first step in the Chinese ambition to land robotic explorers on the Moon before 2020. Chang’e-1 has four mission goals to accomplish….
“This unique research project will enable us to view features of the Sun that we've never seen before,” says Michael Knölker, director of NCAR's High Altitude…
The results not only stake out new territory on the nuclear landscape, but also suggest that variants of everyday elements might exist that are heavier than…
The launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which carries supplies to the International Space Station, will require multiple firings of the Ariane 5…
The launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which carries supplies to the International Space Station, will require multiple firings of the Ariane 5…
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