Geoscientists haven’t found a lot of surprise craters on Earth since satellite technology became commonplace. Still, the complex geological processes on this blue marble can occasionally conceal a se… [+2153 chars]
The International Space Station will intentionally fall to Earth and come to rest within the depths of Point Nemo, a watery graveyard 2,000 miles (3,219 kilometers) north of Antarctica, in January 20… [+5836 chars]
A team of researchers from HSE MIEM joined colleagues from the Institute of Non-Classical Chemistry in Leipzig to develop a theoretical model of a polymeric ionic liquid on a charged conductive elect… [+3172 chars]
A new paper has modelled what a habitable planet may look like in the Alpha Centauri star system, ... [+] the closest start system to us at just 4.4 light-years. getty Pretty soon we may know of a… [+2916 chars]
Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the UK’s University of Bath, is described tod… [+3473 chars]
The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. For all that time, some tubes wer… [+2889 chars]
It is well known that methane, a greenhouse gas, is produced by special microorganisms, for example in the intestines of cows, or in rice fields. For some years, scientists had also observed the prod… [+4117 chars]
Antarctica is one of the remaining frontiers for exploration on the planet. The Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica's vast wedge of floating ice that shields the Southern Ocean's southernmost extension, is th… [+5232 chars]
Deep within the Andromeda constellation, some 320 million light-years away, two galaxies are consumed by a gravitationally bound dance, and the Hubble Space Telescope has just photographed the acti… [+2036 chars]
Astronaut Kayla Barron points the camera at herself for an out-of-this-world “space-selfie” during a spacewalk that took place on December 2, 2021. Credit: NASA The Expedition 66 crew continued prep… [+2309 chars]
Aroud 7,500 light years away, in the direction of the constellation of Ophiuchus, also known as the Serpent Bearer is a binary system designated as RS Ophiuchi. The system consists of a red giant sta… [+3447 chars]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and China and one in Australia has developed a way to use electrons to accelerate molecular … [+2947 chars]
