An artist’s illustration of the asteroid belt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Evidence suggests surface minerals of outer main-belt asteroids, proposed to have sourced building blocks of Earth’s water and… [+7356 chars]
NASA is considering studying sex in space as experts claim it’s ‘crucial’ for long-haul future missions to Mars and the Moon. With astronauts gone for years at a time, a team of five Canadian academ… [+2206 chars]
A few days ago, the Sun underwent a series of combustion reactions that gave rise to large solar flare activities and resultant coronal mass ejections (CME) flung several million kilometers in space.… [+3057 chars]
A technician works at the National Ignition Facility. Scientists used the array of 196 lasers to create conditions similar to the hot gas inside gigantic galaxy clusters. Experiments point the way t… [+6537 chars]
Scientists have been debating for decades about when oxygen levels first became detectable in the Earth’s atmosphere. Over the past century, scientists have debated the idea of the Great Oxygenation … [+4652 chars]
The middle section of the San Andreas Fault may have the capacity to host larger earthquakes than previously believed. Between the towns of Parkfield and Hollister, the famous California fault un… [+5046 chars]
A technician works at the National Ignition Facility. Scientists used the array of 196 lasers to create conditions similar to the hot gas inside gigantic galaxy clusters. Experiments point the way t… [+6537 chars]
image: A map of the strongest El Niño on record in 2016, showing its imprint on sea surface temperatures: red is higher and blue lower than normal. Past climate conditions could hold the key to the f… [+3569 chars]
Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. This new knowledg… [+5031 chars]
Mammals with a nearly exclusive preference for meat are relatively common today, but new research uncovers one of the very first: a bobcat-sized carnivore that lived near what is now San Diego. New … [+5851 chars]
Uh, that's not good. Bad Break Up As if the threat of nuclear disaster at the hands of a mad oligarch wasnt enough, sea levels might rise after a section of Antarctic ice the size of Philadelphia … [+2057 chars]
Submarine surveys of the seafloor beneath the Arctic Ocean have revealed deep craters appearing off the Canadian coastline. The scientists involved attribute these to gasses released as permafrost me… [+3801 chars]
