The light of the moon will reduce the visibility of some fainter meteors, but NASA says it's still worth staying up late — or rising very very early on Wednesday ...
Scientists at the University of Bath have taken an important step towards understanding the interaction between layers of atomically thin materials arranged in ...
New NASA data reveals there is a huge salty lake beneath the surface of Ceres and scientists believe that it could be warm enough to contain some sort of ...
A NASA spacecraft has discovered that a saltwater ocean lies deep below the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
A “terror crocodile” the length of a London bus had teeth the size of bananas and outweighed even the largest predatory dinosaurs. The enormous reptile had ...
Paul Byrne loves Mars. He wrote his doctoral thesis and several research papers about the planet. Most of his graduate students study Mars. And yet, earlier this ...
NASA's InSight lander has been having issues with its "mole" probe for months now. The mole is designed to dig itself deep beneath the Martian surface and ...
There's a surprising phenomenon taking place in Mars' atmosphere: during the spring and fall seasons on the Red Planet, large areas of the sky pulse in ...
For years, scientists have been attempting to track an extremely rare "boomerang" earthquake. Now, they've recorded one in the ocean for the first time — and ...
The temblor shot eastward across a deep gash in the seafloor, and then zipped back to where it started at incredible speeds. It moved so fast it created the ...
Scientists have recorded the first evidence of a so-called "boomerang earthquake" occurring deep in the Atlantic Ocean. A boomerang occurs when a fracture ...
An international team of geologists has discovered evidence of a "boomerang earthquake" — a type of quake that can "ricochet" — which rocked the seafloor ...
Earthquakes come and go, often leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. What they don't usually do, thankfully, is turn around immediately and come back for ...
On July 4, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long ...
TESS wrapped up its two-year primary mission on July 4, having discovered 66 confirmed alien planets and nearly 2100 "candidates" that scientists still need to ...
On July 4, 2020, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its primary mission and is continuing its search for new extrasolar worlds.
Just over two years after it first started hunting for new exoplanets, NASA's TESS has completed its primary mission - now, it's on to the next. The Transiting.
SpaceX may be about to take another step in its plan to reuse space rockets. The company is expected to send up its 11th batch of Starlink satellites in ...
SpaceX, for the second time ever, has successfully recovered a Falcon 9 booster after five orbital-class launches and landings and could be just a week or so ...
SpaceX is building 120 of its Starlink satellites each month, paving the way for a significant expansion in its wireless internet *service*, but also potentially.
Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240000 miles (385000 ...
Cosmic objects sometimes get informal nicknames because their official names are often just numbers and letters, or are named for the astronomer or telescope ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that they will stop using nicknames of celestial bodies that are culturally insensitive.
In May, millions of Americans watched as Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, two veteran NASA astronauts, strapped into a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule ...
Australian and North American physicists display rigorous, scalable diagnostic tool. Noise is the main obstacle to building large-scale quantum computers.
Physicists have long sought to understand the irreversibility of the surrounding world and have credited its emergence to the time-symmetric, fundamental laws ...
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the development of large-scale quantum computers. "Noise" remains the biggest problem for the development of ...
Quantum systems are notoriously prone to errors and noise. In order to overcome this and build a functional quantum computer, physicists should ideally ...
The sky on Mars has a wind of ultraviolet light that pulses as it moves across the red planet. This phenomenon is similar to Earth's aurora borealis events, lasting ...
Research by the University of Colorado following two consecutive Martian years has observed immense light-causing emissions throughout the planet's ...
Vast parts of the Martian sky are glowing in ultraviolet light, a Nasa spacecraft has found. The unexpected pulsing light – discovered by the Maven spacecraft ...
Today's weather on Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, is predicted to be unpleasant: Mushballs with a side of shallow lightning. In a paper published ...
We can add another phenomenon to the Jupiter's laundry list of weird meteorological events—ammonia-laden hail dubbed “mushballs” that are formed during ...
Piloting a craft through Jupiter's atmosphere would be very hard due to massive bolts of "shallow lightning" and the equally scary giant "mushballs" of water and ...
NASA shared an image of fiery red cyclones swirling in Jupiter's atmosphere. However, after posting the picture to its Instagram, users quickly responded by ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a roiling ball of gases and liquids constantly besieged by violent storms and hurricane-force winds—and that's ...
Scientists have discovered that the larynx, or voice box, of primates is significantly larger relative to body size, has greater variation, and is under faster rates of ...
Study is largest ever investigation into evolution of larynges across species. Scientists have discovered that the larynx, or voice box, of primates is significantly ...
Squid are among the smartest ocean dwellers. Along with other ink-squirting cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish, squid boast the largest brains of all ...
The first genetically altered squid is here. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce explains how this breakthrough was made and why it's a game changer for scientists who ...
International team develops a new method to determine the origin of stardust in meteorites. Analysis of meteorite *content* has been crucial in advancing our ...
Analysis of meteorite *content* has been crucial in advancing our knowledge of the origin and evolution of our solar system. Some meteorites also contain grains ...
Twenty-five years of satellite observations have been used to reconstruct a detailed history of Antarctica's ice shelves. These ice platforms are the floating ...
The discovery in the 1970s of hydrothermal vents, where volcanoes at the seafloor produce hot fluid exceeding 350 degrees Celsius, or 662 degrees Fahrenheit ...
The hybrid remotely-operated vehicle Nereus was used to collect seafloor samples, in addition to remotely operated vehicle Jason II, at Piccard vents at ...
Plants are factories that manufacture yield from light and carbon dioxide—but parts of this complex process, called photosynthesis, are hindered by a lack of raw ...
While your skeleton helps your body to move, fine skeleton-like filaments within your cells likewise help cellular structures to move. Now, Salk researchers have ...
... . Our solar system's ice giants are bizarre worlds of extremes… if you were born at one of Uranus's poles, for example, you would be middle-aged at sunset ...
On August 4, 2020, a devastating explosion rocked the port area around Beirut, Lebanon. After the event, scientists used satellite radar imagery to map the ...
NASA's Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team, in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore, used satellite-derived synthetic aperture ...
The deadly Beirut explosion, that took nearly 165 lives, has caused severe damage in the city. To map the extent of this damage, NASA used satellite-derived ...
NASA has crunched the data from satellite images to show the true extent of the damage to Beirut after an explosion rocked the city last week. By comparing ...
Scientists have discovered sharks living inside one of the most active underwater volcanoes in the ocean. The sharks appear to have adapted well to their ...
To say that 2020 has been a wild ride of a year at this point feels like a serious understatement and we're not talking about the global pandemic that continues to ...
Sunspot dubbed AR2770 was observed by an amateur astronomer. Its dark core is similar to the size of Mars and is turning towards Earth, raising concerns of ...
Scientists have discovered that a massive sunspot is turning towards Earth. This event could cause major strong flares, which can affect Global Positioning ...
In a promising breakthrough for the future of communications, EPFL researchers have developed a technology that can amplify light in the latest hollow-core ...
The leader of Russia's civil space program appears to be increasingly disengaged from reality. In recent months Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of Roscosmos, has ...
Uranus and Neptune are cold, icy mysteries. They're so radically different from the rest of the planets in the Solar System, that scientists feel that getting a better ...
Biological sex is typically understood in binary terms: male and female. However, there are many examples of animals that are able to modify sex-typical ...
The bubble of charged particles that surrounds our solar system looks more like a deflated croissant than a comet, as traditionally envisioned, a recent study ...
Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have developed a new prediction about the shape of the bubble the surrounds our ...
Tiny factories float inside our cells and provide them with almost all the energy they need: the mitochondria. Their effectiveness decreases when we get older, ...
In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at a mysterious animal from a family that's been around for millions of years. It's the biggest land ...
Artist's interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents ...
Scientists have been studying treatments for the disease for half a year. Lack of coordination and a broken system mean they still don't know very much.
Exactly how viruses replicate is a complex puzzle with many missing pieces. And in the age of the pandemic, solving it has become a matter of acute urgency.
Coronaviruses (CoVs), enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses, are characterized by club-like spikes that project from their surface, an unusually large RNA ...
Probing Dark Matter With the Higgs Boson. Visible matter – everything from pollen to stars and galaxies – accounts for roughly 15% of the total mass of the ...
The Green Run test campaign for NASA's first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage will culminate in two critical tests that will demonstrate the real-world ...
Tanystropheus hydroides, the newly-described species of reptile that lived 242 million years ago (Triassic period), was about 6 m (20 feet) long, with the neck ...
Researchers identify two prehistoric reptiles with "extraordinarily" long neck which would have been a burden on land but an advantage underwater, allowing ...
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is a pretty special chunk of rock. It's the largest and most massive moon in the Solar System. It's the only Solar System moon that ...
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is a quite special chunk of rock.It is really the major and most significant moon in the Photo voltaic Method. It's the only Solar.
Researchers have discovered a giant atmospheric wave-like phenomenon in Venus' lower atmosphere, unlike anything else seen in the solar system. Evidence ...
A new analysis of the genomes of the most famous of ancient humans - Neanderthals and Denisovans - has revealed an as-yet-unidentified ancestor for our ...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are often mysterious in nature, but not an uncommon observation in deep space. However, researchers have discovered the first FRB to ...
Magnetars are the ultimate aggressive star: intense magnetic fields, massive outbursts, the works. We've known that magnetars are capable of producing some ...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are often mysterious in nature, but not an uncommon observation in deep space. However, researchers have discovered the first FRB to ...
YELLOWSTONE National Park visitors were left terrified after a deafening roar during a terrifying event, leaving one to ask: 'What in the world was that?'
The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery ...
A BLACK HOLE more than 34 billion times the mass of the Sun has put scientists on alert in a bid to understand more as it breaks records in the cosmos.
