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]
The image captured by the Hubble Telescope. The Hubble Telescope - which has been serving as the eyes of humans in deep space for decades - has captured the entire process behind the birth of a star… [+1890 chars]
image: Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry shows it sits ab… [+7027 chars]
video: Dipolar colloidal particles are driven out of equilibrium by a spinning magnetic field. The Rice University experiment demonstrates how gases, represented by the dispersed particles, and liqui… [+7043 chars]
Ten years ago, as a new PhD graduate looking for my next position, I found myself in the academic cold. Nothing says you are an outsider more than a paywall asking US$38 for one article. That fuelled… [+5319 chars]
The discovery photograph of Pluto found by Clyde W. Tombaugh of Lowell Observatory in 1930. Astronomers today suspect that there might be a previously unknown Planet 9 in the distant solar system, bu… [+4130 chars]
image: the Image shows that for Central Europe, when using multiple plausible simulations from seven different climate models and assuming different precipitation trends, the frequency of compound ho… [+5862 chars]
Starship is the future of SpaceX. SpaceX SpaceX came into existence on March 14, 2002 and it's been busy since. The company released a whirlwind retrospective video on Monday mark its 20th anniver… [+1323 chars]
We remember it in 2016, to celebrate the 55th birthdayAnd the Trip memory Yuri Gagarin On April 12, 1961, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced – with the support of Stephen Hawking – He was laun… [+5575 chars]
Murder hornets have invaded parts of Canada and the state of Washington. Washington State Department of Agriculture Asian giant hornets have invaded parts of Canada and US, sparking concerns they c… [+1839 chars]
Artists impression of a (now-disproven) candidate planet formerly thought to be orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, which is part of the triple star system closest to Earth. (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N… [+6214 chars]
Enlarge/ Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. 42 with 21 posters participating In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitat… [+2915 chars]
