A Remarkable Cosmic Baby Is Discovered – And It’s Brilliant
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of…
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of…
Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen lightyears across glows in shades of emerald and auburn. The…
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive…
There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to new estimates by University…
This new portrait of the Red Planet’s neighbors was taken during a time when there’s more dust in the air on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
Coronavirus could be transmitted through a long-lasting cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets ejected from a flushing toilet. Researchers used a computer simulation to show how…
Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria) developed an…
Antoine Champreux, a Ph.D. student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has cataloged the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part…
Rife with obstacles and occlusions, terrestrial environments potentially helped give rise to planning circuits in the brain. New simulations show that living among land’s rich…
Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma simulations suggest. When Jocelyn Bell…
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a…
ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometers to…
One of the biggest and longest-standing questions in the history of human thought is whether there are other intelligent life forms within our Universe. Obtaining…
Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface. The internet is…
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the sun…
An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our Universe has been…
The city rises: Archaeologists have revealed an entire Roman city without any digging. Their approach could revolutionize the study of ancient settlements. For the first…
For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different…