A powerful new communications satellite, touted as the world's highest-capacity broadband satellite for space-based internet service, launched into space Sunday (Dec. 18) to serve millions of customers across North America.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found boron on the surface of Mars. This chemical element is crucially important for life as it is a key part of many protein molecules and is essential for DNA synthesis.
Japan's Kounotori 6 cargo spaceship was launched with the H-IIB launch vehicle from Tanegashima Space Center on Friday to deliver 5.9 tonnes of goods to the International Space Station (ISS), according to local media.
Arianespace lofted Turkey’s Göktürk-1 Earth-observation satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit Dec. 5 aboard a Vega rocket, marking the eighth success for the European light-lift vehicle.
The most dangerous material in plastic bottles is EDC, or endocrine disrupting chemicals, which can cause reproductive and gonadal disorders, scientists say.
NASA has announced the discovery of a colossal mass of underground ice on Mars that could hold as much water as Lake Superior, the second-largest lake on Earth. The body was found in a region of the red planet called “the Utopia” in an area some 2,050 miles in diameter, roughly the size of New Mexico, and running about 560 feet below the surface.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins a series of daring dives through Saturn's rings Nov. 30, the first step in the probe's "grand finale" investigation of the gas giant planet.
A lack of effective intermediary organisations which can connect inventions with the market is a problem for the development of Vietnam’s sci-tech market, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 14.
Ministry officials discussed offering supplementary assistance to victims in Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue, who were affected by the Formosa-caused environmental incident at a meeting in Hanoi on November 8.
A new farm produce preservation technology has been invented by scientists from the Hanoi University of Technology. The technology retains the color and active elements of products, requires a short drying time, and does not consume much energy.
Brain responds more strongly to information about unfavourably portrayed groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and spreads, research shows.
A satellite made by Vietnamese engineers “MicroDragon” will be sent into orbit by Epsilon rocket, a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites in 2018 - as confirmed by JAXA.
