Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very larg… [+4705 chars]
Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky! The number pi, that is. It's March 14, or 3-14,… [+1007 chars]
Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very larg… [+4705 chars]
Seamus Anderson with the meteorite at the location it was found using the drone seen in the background. Credit: Curtin University Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after p… [+3397 chars]
One of the universe’s most enthralling mysteries is the existence of black holes. Nothing can pass through a black hole, not even light. In nearly every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole tha… [+4754 chars]
image: Astrophysicist Lisa Kewley has been named director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.view more Credit: Cristy Roberts/ASTRO 3D Cambridge, Mass. – Lisa J. Kewley has… [+5044 chars]
The ESA is planning to build an oxygen plant on the Moon to help astronauts breathe in outer space. On Wednesday, a winner was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be the first to construc… [+2585 chars]
A Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research team has developed a technology that can detect RNA-degrading enzymes using the incidental cleavage activity of the CRISPR-Cas12a… [+2103 chars]
A new Cornell study sheds light on a controversial debate in epigenetics the set of molecular changes occurring on top of the genome that regulate how genes are turned on and off, but without changin… [+3264 chars]
<ul><li> Newly discovered blob-shaped structures are the biggest ones we’ve seen in Earth’s mantle so far.</li><li>Located low in the mantle layer, the blobs influence the motions of the mantle and… [+3112 chars]
Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after pinpointing its exact location on the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia, with a new technique that uses a drone to collect f… [+3162 chars]
The fact that global warming will increase temperatures over land masses, increasing the frequency of droughts and heat waves, is a certainty -- as is the fact that climate change will alter the aver… [+4881 chars]
