The Growing Menace of Space Junk: How a Minefield of Orbiting …
2024年10月10日 · 70% of known space junk is in low-Earth orbit, which extends about 1,250 miles (2,000 km) above the Earth’s surface. The debris field shown in the image above is an artist’s impression based ...
DESI’s New Findings Confirm Einstein's Gravity Works Over Billions …
2024年11月20日 · Still, the effort is not complete. Researchers continue to investigate theories of modified gravity to help to explain why the expansion of the cosmos is speeding up.
Astronomers Shocked as JWST Uncovers Massive Galaxies That …
2024年11月15日 · This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey.
Mars may have had an ancient lake as big as an ocean - ZME Science
2024年11月11日 · In May 2021, China’s Zhurong rover, part of the Tianwen-1 mission, successfully landed on Mars, in a region called southern Utopia Planitia.
Scientists Capture the X-ray Fingerprint of a Single Atom for the …
6 天之前 · Scientists Capture the X-ray Fingerprint of a Single Atom for the First Time — And This Could Change Everything. The achievement has potential implications from medicine to materials science.
Scientists discover new Tardigrade species that may reveal the …
2024年10月25日 · Electron microscope image of a tardigrade. Image credit: S. Tanaka / H. Sagara / T. Kunieda. In the moss-covered slopes of China’s Funiu Mountain, scientists have discovered a new species of ...
NASA’s methane satellite just mapped its first plumes - ZME Science
2024年10月17日 · On Sept. 19, the imaging spectrometer on the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite detected this methane plume in Karachi, Pakistan, extending nearly 2½ miles (4 kilometers) from a ...
Why This Startup Wants to Bury Nuclear Reactors a Mile …
2024年9月13日 · The three last remaining nuclear power plants in Germany were finally taken offline on 15 April 2023.The Atomausstieg’s final step marked the end of a process that had been going for over two ...
Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Microscope - ZME Science
2024年8月22日 · Credit: Pixabay. Physicists at the University of Arizona have achieved a significant breakthrough in imaging the subatomic world. They have developed the world’s fastest electron microscope ...
The Universe’s Structure May Be 'Smoother' Than Expected, …
2024年9月27日 · The CMB’s spectrum (light broken down by wavelength) suggests it must have been in thermal equilibrium with matter in the past – meaning they had the same distribution of energies.