In August 2024, ESA’s JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer (JUICE) made history with a daring Moon-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver. As the spacecraft zipped past our Moon and home planet, NASA’s Jovian Energetic Neutrals and Ions (JENI) instrument onboard JUICE captured the sharpest-ever image of Earth’s radiation belts — swaths of charged particles trapped

Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma in Tibetan or Sagarmāthā in Nepali, is about 15 to 50 m taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it, according to new research. Han et al. found that erosion from a river network

The new image of the Rosette Nebula was taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab. Cradled within the fiery petals of the Rosette Nebula is NGC 2244, the young star cluster which it nurtured. Image credit:

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Charon's surface. Previous research, including a 2015 NASA flyby, showed that Charon's surface was coated by water ice...

Using data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on the frozen surface of Pluto’s moon Charon. Their findings provide new insights into the chemical processes and surface composition of Charon, which could help us understand the origin and evolution

While different institutions are making the case for hydrogen production offshore or in proximity to the coast, the European Commission is preparing to move forward with its second hydrogen auction. October 1, 2024 Sergio Matalucci The European Commission published the final terms and conditions (T&Cs) for its second auction for renewable hydrogen (IF24 Auction )

Fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a group called Rebbachisauridae. Campananeyen fragilissimus. Image credit: Fundación Azara. The newly-discovered dinosaur species lived in Patagonia between 99 to 96 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch). Dubbed Campananeyen fragilissimus, the ancient plant-eater was

Three-body nuclear systems are key to many aspects of modern nuclear physics, such as understanding the equation of state of high-density nuclear matter and the composition of neutron star cores. In particular, scattering data from deuterons (bound proton-neutron pairs) and hadrons offer important ingredients for constraining parameters of nuclear interactions. Physicists with the ALICE Collaboration

The newly-developed map of the local Universe is based on the motions of 56,000 galaxies, according to a team of astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. This map shows the distribution of matter in the local Universe; it shows how matter flows, i.e. along which trajectories (thin lines) the galaxies move. Image credit:

For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed -- in real time and at the molecular-scale -- hydrogen and oxygen atoms merge to form tiny, nano-sized bubbles of water. The event occurred as part of a new Northwestern University study, during which scientists sought to understand how palladium, a rare metallic element, catalyzes the gaseous

On Monday, 30 September, from 1pm to 2.30pm, the South African Health Technologies Advocacy Coalition hosts a webinar on unpacking the Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir injection for HIV prevention and its implication for the communities. The coalition is a network of NGOs seeking to catalyse action on health research and development through coordinated advocacy to increase access

Only about 6 percent of the country’s biggest cities are planning for or thinking about autonomous vehicles or self-driving cars in their long-range transportation plans, according to the National League of Cities. What’s even more surprising is that only 3 percent of these cities’ transit plans are even taking into account the impact of ride-hailing companies like