The Crew-12 Falcon 9 rocket photographed soon after launch on Feb. 13. (Image credit: NASA/John Kraus) NASA has released a nebula-like view of the SpaceX/NASA Crew-12 mission launching to the International Space Station atop a reusable Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Feb. 13. What is it? SpaceX Falcon
What happens when you throw money at the night sky? After you’ve mastered the art of naked-eye astronomy, close-ups of star clusters, nebulas and galaxies will be next on your celestial shopping list. But not all stargazing gear is created equal. Budget binoculars and entry-level telescopes will show you plenty, but spend a bit more
The mysterious disappearance of our Neanderthal cousins may have been related to preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and/or the postpartum period, doctors propose in a new study. But experts in paleoanthropology are not convinced. In a paper published Jan. 30 in the Journal of Reproductive Immunology, an international team of neonatologists and OB-GYNs argued
There is no GPS at the Red Planet, but a new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is — without human help. Imagine you’re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for
NASA’s stunning astronaut photo from the International Space Station unveils the breathtaking beauty of Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, a geological wonder that has shaped Earth’s history for over 2.5 billion years. This massive, ancient rock formation stretches across central Zimbabwe, serving as a vital lifeline for the country’s mining industry while also providing valuable insights into
Satellites have captured incredible views of the Feb. 17 annular solar eclipse as the moon’s shadow swept across a remote region of Antarctica, while at the same time a U.S. weather satellite captured the silhouette of Earth’s satellite as it traversed across the face of the sun. An annular solar eclipse takes place when the
Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in near-weightlessness on the International Space Station (ISS). However, the pace of infection shifts, and both the virus and the bacterium start evolving along different paths than they do on Earth. A team led by Phil Huss at the University of Wisconsin–Madison tracked what
Heavy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed the faintest trace of a wake left by a quark slicing through trillion-degree nuclear matter — hinting that the primordial soup of the universe may have literally been more soup-like than we thought. The new findings from the LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration show
Whole-slide edge tomography As shown in Extended Data Fig. 1, the whole-slide edge tomograph comprises multiple hardware modules optimized for high-speed 3D imaging and edge-side data processing. The illumination system uses a high-power light-emitting diode (XQ-E; Cree) as the light source, paired with a motorized iris (Nihon Seimitsu Sokki) to control the numerical aperture. This
Animals All experiments were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Princeton University and the guidelines and policies of the United States Department of Agriculture, as required by the Animal Welfare Act. Subjects included laboratory-bred African striped mice (R. pumilio), which originated through systematic outbreeding in a