Butterfly Network's recent equity raise extends its cash runway, but 20% annual sales growth is insufficient for near-term ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Humanity’s pursuit of longer life is moving from fiction to something far more real. At the heart of this shift is a bold ...

What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

Under the assumption that planetary dust particles can escape from the gravitational attraction of a planet, we consider the possibility of the dust grains leaving the star’s system by means of ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...

NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's atmosphere anytime between Wednesday, May 7 and Tuesday, May 13. However, the spacecraft is most likely to begin its descent on Saturday, May 10.

Press Release Phoenix Tailings expanded the initial $43 million Series B round, led by Envisioning Partners, to $76 million on a second close. The second close was anchored by Escape Velocity, a ...

A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could ...

At every light switch, power socket, and on the road, an unstoppable revolution is already underway. Technologies that can power our lives and jobs while doing less harm to the global climate ...

For Earth, it’s about seven miles per second. As a seasoned artillery officer, Schwarzschild would naturally think of objects traveling near his central mass in terms of escape velocity.

To escape from a planet, an atmospheric particle needs to exceed a critical speed known as the escape velocity. The greater a planet’s gravitational pull, the faster a particle needs to fly if it’s ...