Science

Tags:

Ten Highlights From NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission

spboomsflybystill_1920x1080_0.png

Tags:

Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

MIT-Robotic-Assembly-01_0_0.jpg
Photo shows two prototype assembler robots at work putting together a series of small units, known as voxels, into a larger structure.

Tags:

Photo Release: Hubble Observes New Interstellar Visitor

On 12 October 2019, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provided astronomers with their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — Comet 2I/Borisov — which is believed to have arrived here from another planetary system elsewhere in our galaxy.

heic1918a.jpg
Comet 2I/Borisov.

Tags:

Gas ‘Waterfalls’ Reveal Infant Planets around Young Star

ALMA witnesses planet formation in action

NRAO_0.png
Artist impression of gas flowing like a waterfall into a protoplanetary disk gap, which is most likely caused by an infant planet.

Tags:

Feeding a Baby Star Through a Whirlpool in Space

spiral_CF_ASIAA-880x505_0.jpg

Tags:

AstroPlant green light

AstroPlant_green_light_article_mob_0.jpg
AstroPlant green light

Tags:

FOREGROUND ASTEROID PASSING THE CRAB NEBULA__Striking find

Foreground_asteroid_passing_the_Crab_Nebula_article_mob_0.jpg
FOREGROUND ASTEROID PASSING THE CRAB NEBULA

Tags:

Fate Of Greenland’s Ice Already Set, PSI’s Jeff Kargel Says

PSI Senior Scientist Jeff Kargel paints a gloomy outlook for ice in Greenland challenged by global climate change.

Tags:

Lake Natron, Tanzania

Lake_Natron_Tanzania_node_full_image_2_0.jpg
Lake Natron, Tanzania

Tags:

Hubble Snaps Spiral's Profile

potw1940a_0.jpg
Hubble Snaps Spiral's Profile