Science

When Lilah Mehta entered a biomedical research laboratory at Yale University when she was 16, her main goal was to explore the biological questions that had interested her since her ninth-grade science classes. Two years later, the New Canaan resident and student at the King School in Stamford reached an academic milestone rarely achieved before … Read more

La brillante capa de nubes de Venus ha sido descrita durante casi medio siglo como gotas concentradas de ácido sulfúrico suspendidas en una atmósfera de dióxido de carbono. Un artículo de 2025 se pregunta si un experimento accidental durante el descenso de una sonda en 1978 registró algo mucho más complicado químicamente. El reanálisis revisado … Read more

2026-09-04T16:23:34.369Z Roman finding its space legs Animation of the deployable aperture cover on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab) As it approaches the end of its first week in space, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is being preppared to begin its operational mission.Roman, which launched on … Read more

When we imagine a glacier, we tend to imagine a huge chunk of ice spread over a mountain valley or descending from a snow-covered peak. But not all glaciers look as expected. Some are hidden beneath a jumble of rocks, with the ice buried out of sight. These formations, known as rock glaciers, can hide … Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private spacecraft that was supposed to provide a lifeline to NASA’s Swift Observatory managed to get close to the sinking telescope and even took photographs more than a week after the rescue was abandoned. But the three-armed robotic rescuer had to move away due to low fuel, according to … Read more

Ángel Vázquez, director of telescope operations at the observatory, was standing outside the control room on the morning of December 1, 2020 when he heard a loud bang. He looked up in time to see the rest happen. A 900-ton instrument platform, suspended 500 feet above the dish on a handful of steel cables, broke … Read more

Mechanical watches have accompanied astronauts and cosmonauts into space for decades, but few contemporary watches can claim to have been developed specifically around the demands of extravehicular activity, like Konstantin Chaykin’s new SC02C. Born from the manufacturer’s collaboration with Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, the chronograph has been tested during four spacewalks and is now … Read more

Let’s start with the figure that makes the rest of the story difficult to imagine: 200 billion. That’s about the number of rows of data a machine learning program created by a Pasadena high school student had to process. Each row is a moment when a retired NASA telescope captured a flash of infrared light … Read more

When we imagine glaciers, it’s easy to imagine vast expanses of white ice glistening under the sky. But not all glaciers take that shape. The world is covered by a different type, called rock glaciers: landforms in mountainous regions where masses of ice and rock coexist, hidden beneath a hard surface of rock and boulders. … Read more

Mercury, the smallest and least explored planet in the inner solar system, hides mysteries far greater than itself, and finally, scientists will soon get not one, but two spacecraft designed to decode this strange world. This is thanks to the BepiColombo mission, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace … Read more