Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - The SETI Institute has announced the launch of the Discovery and Futures Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to understanding the global scientific, philosophical, and societal dimensi
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - A computer vision system developed at Columbia Engineering can determine how much energy a solar panel will generate over a year - and how much more it could generate if repositioned - using nothing
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - Researchers at LMU Munich have overcome two long-standing obstacles to the practical use of perovskite quantum dots - their instability in solution and the difficulty of controlling their growth wit
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - At more than one million degrees, the Sun's atmosphere - the corona - is incredibly hot. Yet enormous, cool structures of solar plasma at around 10,000 degrees repeatedly appear within it. Known as
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - Scientists have long recognized the resilience of fungi, but a new study demonstrates that certain strains may be capable of surviving every stage of a mission to Mars - from spacecraft assembly thr
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - The European-Chinese Smile mission is now due to launch on May 19, 2026, at 05:52 CEST on a Vega-C rocket after partners completed investigations into a technical issue found in the production line
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - Quaise Energy is on track to build the world's first power plant using superhot geothermal energy - energy obtained by tapping into rock with temperatures greater than 300 degrees C (572 degrees F
Hanover, Germany (AFP) April 23, 2026 - Defence and security-related firms for the first time have their own section at the world's top industrial fair in Hanover this week - a sign of the times as Germany embarks on a massive rearmament drive.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a foldable reflectarray antenna for CubeSats that uses an origami inspired structure to reconcile high gain performance with severe volum
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - Astronauts take time to adjust how strongly they grip and move objects when transitioning between Earth and space, basing those adjustments on predictions their brains make about the risk of making
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has found evidence for water-ice clouds on a Jupiter-like exoplanet called Epsilon Indi Ab, using the
London, UK (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies - tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way - have long been seen as cosmic fossils. A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society uses a
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2026 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has uncovered a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth. The findings come f
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2026 - The European Space Agency has completed the first full scale test model of its reusable Space Rider spacecraft, marking a step toward flight trials of the vehicle's runway landing system. Spac
United States (AFP) April 22, 2026 - NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swathes of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Paris, France (AFP) April 21, 2026 - A NASA rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday.
