The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an unpresidential view of the bright star-forming ring surrounding the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097. Located about 48 million light-years from… [+911 chars]
AN enormous space rock will zip past Earth this week. According to Nasa trackers, the asteroid 2013 BO76 will hurtle past on Thursday at a staggering 30,000 miles per hour (50,000 kph). An enormous… [+2869 chars]
Storytellers, scientists and dreamers have always been fascinated by the idea of time travel – now NASA’s new James Webb telescope is the closest anyone has come so far. The new instrument is the mo… [+5420 chars]
Introducing self-evolving RNA created by scientists at the University of Tokyo. It offers insights into how simple biological molecules can lead to the emergence of complex lifelike systems. This se… [+2450 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Chen Ping and Associate Prof. Liu Lin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Associate Prof.… [+2045 chars]
Although late detection of asteroids can prove suicidal for Earth, it seems to have been lucky this time. Well, we are not kidding. Recently, an asteroid, which was around the size of a refrigerat… [+1416 chars]
Astronomers using data gathered from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have characterised a cataclysmic collision between two planetesimals in orbit around HD 166191. The star is located at a distance o… [+3244 chars]
These are the first fossil remains of this group of quadrupedal herbivores, which lived from the early Jurassic to the late Cretaceous, to be discovered in Asia. Their appearance was distinctive, si… [+3110 chars]
Older than expected: artists impression of a magnetar in a cluster of ancient stars (in red) close to the spiral galaxy M81. The source of fast radio bursts (FRBs) first detected in 2020 is likely t… [+2900 chars]
It’s called HiRISE, or High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, and it’s the camera installed on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA satellite orbiting Mars. Recently, this probe approached D… [+1244 chars]
Space images are mesmerising. There is no doubt about that. Though we know a lot about what's out there, there's lot that is still to be found. But sometimes old images reveal something astoundingly … [+1137 chars]
The opening of the ice-free corridor that linked Beringia to the North American interior happened potentially thousands of years after the first human migrations to the continent, according to new ev… [+7438 chars]
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