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Europe's space chief says cooperation with Russia will continue, but experts aren't so sure

Business with Russia continues as usual amid the escalating situation in Ukraine, the European Space Agency's (ESA) chief said on Friday (Feb. 25). But it's unclear if the partnership can survive Russia's recent aggression, experts say.

Major James Webb Space Telescope project will map half a million early galaxies

It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Issac Newton wrote, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants," but the sentiment certainly holds true today. Newton's wisdom is exemplified by a grand project called the Cosmic Evolution ...

Russian space program chief says US sanctions could 'destroy' International Space Station partnership

"Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS?" read one of the tweets from Roscosmos Director-General Dimitry Rogozin, which was translated by Rob Mitchell for Ars Technica senior space editor Eric Berger, who shared Mitchell's translation on Twitter ...

NASA rules out April for Artemis I launch, could target May

NASA mission managers updated Artemis I progress ahead of the March rollout of the massive Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B for what the agency calls a wet dress rehearsal.

Graphene sensor rapidly detects opioid metabolites in wastewater

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EurekAlert

The novel device is the first to use graphene-based field effect transistors to detect four different synthetic and natural opioids at once, while shielding them from wastewater's harsh elements. When a specific opioid metabolite attaches to ...

New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search

Physicists searching—unsuccessfully—for today's most favored candidate for dark matter, the axion, have been looking in the wrong place, according to a new supercomputer simulation of how axions were produced shortly after the Big Bang 13.6 billion ...

NASA Eyes May Launch Date for Historic Artemis I Moon Mission

NASA on Thursday announced a possible launch date of late May -- which could dip into June -- for its upcoming Artemis I mission, which aims to redirect humanity's eyes to the moon by sending a spacecraft into lunar orbit. The new timeline appears to ...

James Webb Space Telescope Delivers Splendid Star Image as Mirrors Align

The "image stacking" phase of the Webb telescope alignment involves the creation of a single unified image out of multiple images. This is 18 segments stacked to show a single star. NASA/STScI. When we saw one of the James Webb Space Telescope's first ...

The New York Times

Venus Shows Its Hot, Cloudy Side

The New York Times

That is what pictures taken by NASA's Parker Space Probe have revealed. The planet's average temperature hovers around 860 degrees Fahrenheit, and thick clouds of sulfuric acid obscure the view. Until now, the only photographs ...

Supermassive black holes will smash into each other and warp space and time, scientists warn

New York Post

New York Post

Two massive black holes will merge in 10,000 years, in a collision that will send ripples across the universe, a new study finds. The research, led by a team of astronomers from CalTech, found that two colossal black holes, about 9 billion light-years ...