China’s main space contractor did not say how high the spacecraft flew or elaborate on its flight path.
The planets are a passionate bunch, and as seen from Earth throughout the year, these celestial bodies appear moving across the sky and brighten and fade...
A new way of producing coherent light in the ultra-violet spectral region, which points the way to developing brilliant table-top...
Using time- and spin-resolved methods at BESSY II, the physicists explored how, after optical excitation, the complex interplay...
A team of researchers has developed a simplified method to perform the necessary calibration of optical tweezers. Shortening...
Every month has a full moon, but only July can lay claim to the moon named after an animal with majestic antlers: the Buck Moon....
"The best meteor shower of the year" is just getting warmed up as the Perseids build toward a mid-August peak.
Electronic circuits that store information and compute contain millions of tiny switches that control the flow of electric current. A more detailed understanding of how these...
The arrival of plants on land about 400 million years ago may have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates its own climate, according to a...
Recent findings, with important implications for ocean biogeochemistry and climate science, have been published by Nature Communications...