A beautiful new shot of Jupiter reveals two interlopers faintly creeping into the frame. The image, taken during a January 12 flyby of the giant planet by NASAs intrepid Juno probe features a cameo… [+3676 chars]
Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts, from aerosols in the atmosphere to the magnetic field of stars. However,… [+3137 chars]
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximizing their strength and their speed. Almost all vertebrates are… [+3630 chars]
From anxiety to depression, loneliness is known to have a range of unpleasant symptoms in humans. And now a new study has shown that loneliness is just as problematic for elephants, who show more si… [+4885 chars]
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday played down recent comments by the head of Russias space agency that the United States would have to use broomsticks to fly to space after Russia said it woul… [+2317 chars]
A mysterious, repeating radio signal in the Milky Way that baffled astronomers could be an object so rare, only one other has ever been tentatively identified. According to a paper by astrophysicist… [+4549 chars]
While studying systems with tidal distortions, astronomers have identified three, potentially four objects that have been misclassified as exoplanets, and are actually small stars. The objects are mo… [+2141 chars]
The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar … [+3728 chars]
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago via accretion. Earth’s building blocks were chunks of rock of varying sizes. From dust to planetesimals and everything in between. Many of those chunks of rock… [+8831 chars]
A new kind of fibre material is able to detect a heartbeat, handclaps or even faint sounds, unlocking a new avenue for wearable technology that can be worked into clothing. This development comes fr… [+3809 chars]
A potential cornucopia of neuroactive compounds, which might yield clues to the design of future psychiatric and neurological drugs, has become more accessible to synthetic chemists, thanks to new wo… [+3243 chars]
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radi… [+2149 chars]
