Weekly recaps

It was a good week for space science as a large international team of researchers studying data from ESO's Very Large Telescope observed a star dancing around a supermassive black hole, once again proving that Einstein was ...

It was a good week for space research, as a team working on NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover project reported on final preparations for the spacecraft and the sky crane—along with the Mars Helicopter, which will be the ...

It was a good week for physics research as a team at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics unveiled a new laser technique that will allow more powerful—and smaller—particle accelerators. Such machines ...

Despite the worldwide pandemic, scientific research has continued. It was a good week for space science particularly, as a pair of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center found one more secret about Uranus when ...

It was a good week for space science as a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that the Mars rover Curiosity took a selfie before setting off on a record climb. The rover then crested Greenheugh Pediment, a broad ...

It was another good week for physics as a team of engineers at the University of New South Wales cracked a 58-year-old puzzle on their way to a quantum breakthrough—by controlling the nucleus of a single atom using only ...

It was a good week for space news as a team with members from several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K. found evidence of a cosmic impact that destroyed one of the world's earliest human settlements—meltglass ...

It was another good week for physics as a team at Northeastern University might have accidentally discovered a new state of matter in which electrons distribute themselves evenly into a stationary, crystalline pattern. A ...

It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers at the University of Chicago used math to propose a theory that predicts a state of matter could exist that conducts both electricity and energy perfectly. Also, ...

It was a good week for space research, as a team working at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured images revealing the surface of a dim Betelgeuse—historically one of the brightest stars in the ...

It was a good week for physics, as a team with members from China, Korea, Russia and the U.K. created a new type of optical transistor that unlocked hidden frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum—the graphene-based ...

It was a good week for space research as a team at the California Institute of Technology found evidence to support a theory that suggests Mars' thin carbon dioxide atmosphere is due to a long-term stable polar deposit of ...