Boeing's Starliner hiccup could delay US plans for crewed spaceflight

A problem with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft prevented it from visiting the ISS on its first flight…

China launches powerful rocket in boost for 2020 Mars mission

China Friday launched one of the world’s most powerful rockets in a major step forward for…

Hundreds flee lowlands as Cyclone Sarai sweeps past Fiji

Tropical Cyclone Sarai barrelled off the coast of Fiji early Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to…

Astronaut Christina Koch Poised to Make History Again

NASA astronaut Christina Koch makes observations from the International space Station’s cupola. Click here…

Secrets of Germany's 'Alcatraz' virus island revealed

On a Baltic Sea island once used by the Nazis for biological weapon research, German scientists…

Elastic kirigami patch for electromyographic analysis of the palm muscle during baseball pitching

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to investigate human motion including athletic performance. Baseball pitchers require…

Deep eclipses detected in the cataclysmic variable J0130

Russian astronomer Valery Kozhevnikov has conducted photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable (CV) IPHAS J013031.89+622132.3 (J0130…

Injection of virus-delivered gene silencer blocks ALS degeneration, saves motor function

Novel spinal therapy/delivery approach prevented disease onset in neurodegenerative ALS disease model in adult mice and…

Researchers map malaria parasites proliferating in human blood cells

Malaria parasites transform healthy red blood cells into rigid versions of themselves that clump together, hindering…

Calculating the time it will take spacecraft to find their way to other star systems

A pair of researchers, one with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, the other with the…