Astronomers have created a 3D map of a cosmic structure so gigantic that it's almost impossible to even comprehend. The “South Pole Wall” is a flabbergasting ...
Spectacular 3D maps of the universe have revealed one of the biggest cosmic structures ever found — an almost-inconceivable wall stretching 1.4 billion ...
Researchers studying 3D maps of the universe and have discovered one of the biggest cosmic structures ever. The structure is a vast wall that stretches 1.4.
A new cosmic structure was just discovered that may hold an incredible number of galaxies, stars, and planets. The structure is now known as the South Pole ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its ...
The comet NEOWISE just passed close by the Sun and is putting on a spectacular display in the early morning skies right now. Discovered by a NASA mission, ...
A photographer in Italy captured the image of a lifetime when he snapped a picture showing two astronomical phenomena, including a streaking comet and ...
You'll have to stay up very late to see it, or get up very early, but a newly discovered comet could make a "spectacular" overnight appearance, visible even from ...
Like many Americans this summer, NASA's Curiosity rover is embarking on a road trip — but on Mars. The nearly eight-year-old mission will be guided through a ...
After more than a year in a clay-rich region, Curiosity is making a mile-long journey around some deep sand so that it can explore higher up Mount Sharp.
You may have heard about Planet Nine—a hypothetical planet thought to exist in the outer reaches of the solar system. One possibility is that it's not a planet at ...
Scientists at Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and along with it, ...
Is there a ninth planet lurking beyond the orbit of Neptune? Astronomers have been observing strange gravitational patterns of a cluster of bodies known as ...
... . In 2019, astronomers and physicists proposed that the long-sought for Planet Nine, an elusive dark body in the outer reaches of our solar system, may ...
NASA wants to make sure we don't unknowingly take organisms or other contaminants from Earth to other worlds (and vice-versa) when humans start exploring ...
NASA unveiled two new rules for future missions to the Moon and Mars so as to protect them from any possible contamination brought by Earth, as well as back ...
NASA plans to update its guidelines for how much biological contamination of the Moon and Mars will be allowed, as the agency plans to send humans into ...
For over fifty years, N.A.S.A. has maintained a strict “planetary protection” protocol for its astronauts to follow whenever they visit other planets. Based on the ...
SCHUMPETER IS ONLY an amateur stargazer. His equipment is no fancier than a pair of eyes and a place in the countryside, away from London's light pollution ...
HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX will try again Saturday to launch its twice-delayed mission to deploy nearly 60 satellites into orbit. The launch of the ...
SpaceX has accidentally dropped one of its newest Falcon 9 booster's landing legs during a retraction attempt in Port Canaveral while crews worked to prepare ...
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The summer race to land a space probe on Mars is off to a hot start. "We have lift-off, we have lift-off!" The summer race to land a space probe on Mars is off to a ...
On July 14, the Emirates Mars probe – "Hope" or "Al Amal" in Arabic – is scheduled to liftoff from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center and begin a | eTurboNews ...
NASA just awarded substantial funding to Pioneer Astronautics, a company that claims it can gather up lunar regolith and turn it into usable oxygen. Pioneer ...
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NASA to send the first woman to the moon with their Artemis Space Program on 2024. The space agency also remembers the STS-135 mission took place in ...
NASA has selected four U.S. small businesses to mature a range of technologies for sustainable exploration of the Moon under the Artemis program. Through ...
Astronomers have found four distant, ring-shaped objects in space they say are unlike anything observed previously. The rings, which Live Science likened to ...
Astronomers have detected a new signal from mysterious objects most likely located outside the Milky Way galaxy. This is the first instance such a signal has ...
In the Alps, near the Presena glacier, on the Gavia pass and in other places, the ice is turning pink. Experts have already understood the reason for this stran.
Pink snow is appearing in the Italian Alps, offering clues as to mankind's impacts on the planet's climate. The snow changes color due to algae blooms which ...
Watermelon snow,” so named for the deceptively delicate rosy tint appearing in the Italian Alps, could in reality be a climate change portent – although at least ...
KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby star. The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in which ...
... . . Was Venus the first habitable planet in the Solar System? “Venus is like the control case for Earth,” said planetary scientist Sue Smrekar with NASA's Jet ...
Once every 20 years, the solar system's two giant planets converge in the sky for what is called a Great Conjunction, and the year 2020 culminates with the ...
Scientists believe the only way humans will reach Mars is by first going to Venus. Using the planet's gravity as a slingshot to whip the spacecraft to the Red ...
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, North Carolina State University and NASA, has proposed, via whitepaper, ...
Paleontologists have found and described the first nearly complete skeleton of Ankylorhiza tiedemani, an extinct large dolphin that lived about 24 million years ...
A team of scientists at the University of Vermont have invented a new tool—they call it a "nanocage"—that can catch and straighten out molecule-sized tangles of ...
Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising shift in the Arctic Ocean. Exploding blooms of phytoplankton, the tiny algae at the base of a food ...
Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising shift in the Arctic Ocean. Exploding blooms of phytoplankton, the tiny algae at the base of a food ...
The Presena Glacier in Northern Italy by the Alps now appears pink, which has caused concern among various scientists regarding an increase in the rate of ...
At first glance, the snow that's changed from white to bright pink in the Italian Alps seems like a stunning feat of nature. But scientists say it may actually be a ...
Although pink snow is common in the Alps during summer, higher frequency of the phenomenon and an increase in the intensity of the colour is raising alarms.
According to Italian scientists, the strange phenomenon is likely a result of Chlamydomonas Nivalis algae growth, which is not dangerous by itself but may ...
More than 20 million years ago, the southern United States was home to a monstrous apex predator. Researchers describe the full skeleton of a cetacean called ...
A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is ...
Check out the chompers on these guys. Robert W Boessenecker. Dolphins may seem like the playful, intelligent mischief-makers of the sea, but it turns out at ...
A fossil of an ancient giant tusked dolphin lacks the extra vertebrae and short pectoral bones that make fast swimmers of dolphins and baleen whales, which ...
A few days after reports emerged of a 4-inch reptile that was a relative of the dinosaurs, researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of a baby raptor in ...
While the breed of dinosaurs in question apparently lived all over the world, the relative fragility of its bones make it problematic for scientists to determine how...
The discovery of a baby dinosaur's jawbone helps prove that some dinosaurs made their home in the Arctic. Paleontologists may have identified a new species ...
A small piece of fossil jawbone from Alaska represents a rare example of juvenile dromaeosaurid dinosaur remains from the Arctic, according to a study ...
When the Chinese Yutu2 rover discovered a strange looking "gel-like" substance on the lunar far side, it made headlines. Now it looks like it's just a rock.
A year ago, China's Yutu-2 rover found a mysterious, green, gel-like substance on the surface of the moon. Now, scientists know what it is. Assuming that you ...
Chinese scientists have finally published an analysis of a curious substance that was found on the moon and generated widespread interest after it was ...
Remember that weird 'gel-like' substance scientists discovered on the far side of the moon? No? Well, thankfully you don't need to start racking your brain too ...
China says the strange 'gel' substance it detected on the surface of the Moon was actually a mixture of many different things. The material likely didn't originate ...
Patients can sort the apps by whether they'll have to pay for it, its services, the intensity of its privacy policy, and the clinical evidence behind it.
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Data from ...
Each year, dust from the Sahara Desert blows off Africa and across the Atlantic, but most years that plume isn't so massive it's nicknamed "Godzilla." This June ...
NASA has signed a new agreement with Japan that lays out plans for the two nations to cooperate on the International Space Station (continuing existing ...
Japan's science ministry and the US space agency NASA have agreed to discuss cooperation plans that could lead to Japanese astronauts visiting the moon.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has delayed the first launch of their upcoming heavy-medium rocket: the Ariane 6. Arianespace – the prime contractor for ...
Program delays have forced Eumetsat to reserve a pair of Ariane 6 rockets for two European weather satellites originally anticipated to launch on Ariane 5 ...
NASA has finished designing and started building a spacecraft that will fly to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, launching on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in ...
The deep-space robotic equipment dubbed "Psyche" is due to be launched on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in late summer 2022. It will whizz past Mars ...
Space agency NASA is to preparing to launch its groundbreaking "Psyche" spacecraft that will explore a huge asteroid claimed to be worth more than the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a galaxy nestled 67 million light-years away in the Cancer constellation—and it's fluffy. Known as NGC 2775, the ...
Recently, I had a fantastic conversation with David Leckrone, an astrophysicist who spent 33 years working on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Much of that ...
These five Space photos captured by NASA in the first half of 2020 will provide a relief amidst the challenge of the pandemic. View the surreal images.
SpaceX is planning the first test flight of its Starship prototype as soon as next week, Teslarati reports — if a Raptor rocket engine test slated for earlier in the ...
NASA released surreal footage from the Apollo Space Program of the 1960s and '70s. The stunning, high-resolution visuals give a closer look at a Lunar Roving ...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has ...
... . . Invisible radio signals from the cosmos have revealed previously unknown phenomena from prebiotic molecules in a starburst about 250 million light-years ...
Astronomers have spotted strange circular objects, deep in space, through telescopes. The objects "do not seem to correspond to any known type of object",
Strange, never-before-seen circles of radio waves have been discovered in space. Researchers in Australia say what is producing the "odd radio circles"—or ...
Astronomers in Australia have discovered four unexplained circular objects, each with an unusual glow, that defies current understanding and may represent a ...
One reason a technique for cloning animals often results in oversized placentas, and hence failed births, has been uncovered in mice by an all-RIKEN team.
The fundamental process that arguably forms the backbone of life on earth is photosynthesis; every organism is directly or indirectly dependent on this process.
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...
MUCH OF the international effort thus far to combat climate change has focused on cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, chief among them carbon dioxide.
Slashing greenhouse gas emissions would probably not yield visible results until mid-century, researchers have said, cautioning that humanity must manage its ...
New research revealed that tiny, sunlight-absorbing particles in wildfire smoke may have less impact on climate than widely hypothesized because reactions as ...
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season and ...
An illustration of the stellar flares on AD Leonis 16 light-years away. Its lower temperature makes it a prime target to study flares and the more explosive ...
A team of astronomers in Japan has detected a total of 12 stellar flares, including a so-called superflare, on AD Leonis, an M-dwarf star located just 16 ...
Just as the Moon tugs at our planet's seas, contributing to oceanic tidal waves, it also pulls at our atmosphere along with the Sun, creating waves in the sky.
A study by scientists at Kyoto University and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa has shown that the Earth's entire atmosphere vibrates in a manner that greatly ...
Earth's entire atmosphere vibrates analogously. In the case of the atmosphere, the “music” comes not as a sound we could hear; instead, it is in the form of large ...
https://youtu.be/bTQ-SmeLTl8 DAIN is an AI-powered method for adding "missing" frames of footage. Standard interpolation treats the existing frames as flat ...
If a spacecraft ferried passengers to new star systems, their language would evolve to the point of making communicating with Earth extremely difficult.
It's a captivating idea: build an interstellar ark, fill it with people, flora, and fauna of every kind, and set your course for a distant star. The concept is not only ...
Humanity is forever gazing toward the stars, with both dreams and plans of colonizing other worlds on the horizon. However, even if we do eventually manage to ...
The story of how vertebrates got their teeth is much older than researchers realized, new findings show. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, ...
Fossilised teeth belonging to the extinct 'acanthothoracid' fish, discovered near Prague in the Czech Republic, have features similar to our own, they reveal.
Global average sea surface temperatures have risen at unprecedented rates for the past three decades, with far-reaching consequences for coral reefs. Today ...
In April, when the State University of New York (SUNY) system canceled a big subscription deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier in favor of a smaller, ...
People living on the Israeli coast 120,000 years ago strung ocher-painted seashells on flax string, according to a recent study in which archaeologists examined ...
Experiments on 160000-year-old clam shell fossils in northern caves indicate they are earliest examples of shell beads strung for display on the human body, ...
A team of archaeologists excavating a cave in Israel have made the incredible discovery of a collection of shells that were once threaded onto strings and worn ...
Persons residing on the Israeli coastline 120,000 many years in the past strung ocher-painted seashells on flax string, in accordance to a recent examine in ...
Changes in a few small molecules involved in a cell's metabolism seem to indicate whether a restricted "life extension" diet will actually extend, shorten, or have ...
The polar region, located at the northernmost part of our planet, is a unique area home to numerous fascinating species. The region, which is rich in natural ...
Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart showed that the concentration of short-lived ions (H3O+ and OH-) in pure ...
A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a technique that could lead to new ...
BUZZ ALDRIN admitted one of the most iconic moments from the Apollo 11 mission was 'so well staged' during an interview with Professor Brian Cox in 2016.
In El Lago, about 30 miles outside of Houston and just a short drive from NASA's Johnson Space Center, you can snag the mid-century home that served as ...
Buzz Aldrin was the lunar module pilot with Neil Armstrong as the commander, becoming the first people to land on the moon in 1969 under the Apollo 11 ...
