The Earth observation satellite CSO-2 that Airbus has built for the French Armed Forces has been successfully launched on a Soyuz launcher from the Kourou European...
Better telescopes can help us view far away regions of the solar system in more detail, but to reach these places, we need spacecrafts.
The collapse of Florida basketball player Keyontae Johnson has spurred conversation about how to detect myocarditis in athletes who have had COVID-19.
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, a team of scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared...
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of a...
Northrop Grumman's uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday, Jan. 6, more than three months after delivering...
Why does the moon have a ring around it? December 2020's full moon also experienced a moon ring, aka a winter halo or 22-degree halo.
Physicists are working to develop a unique tokamak fusion device called 'SPARC.'
On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a...
What to look for when you look up at the night sky in the Pacific Northwest this year.