By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...
Cells organize their molecules into distinct functional areas. While textbooks usually refer to membrane-bound organelles ...
It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...
There were many impressive moments in spaceflight this year, but if the industry had a slogan, it would be “onwards and upwards.” So, as 2025 comes to an end, it’s time to shift our focus toward the ...
Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...
On Nov. 25, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center successfully joined the two main segments of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, officially completing the construction of an observatory ...
For nine months in 2022, moss lived in space. It wasn’t in a lab aboard the International Space Station, like other gardening experiments conducted in orbit — rather, the moss was attached to the ...
This week the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced that the homecoming for three of its astronauts was delayed after a piece of space junk struck the Shenzhou 20 spacecraft that was intended to ...
ISSAP received funding from the Australian Research Council. Justin Walsh's co-PI on ISSAP is Dr. Alice Gorman (Flinders University). Walsh co-owns Brick Moon, a space habitat consultancy. The ...
These days, orbital real estate is growing increasingly cluttered with all manner of communication, observation, research, and navigation satellites. It’s a market worth $286 billion in 2022, ...
MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...