After a large number of asteroids flew past the Earth last week, it appears the bombardment is not going to stop any time soon. There are more asteroids hurtling towards Earth, and the latest one amo… [+2219 chars]
Suppose that we could watch twenty generations of whales or sharks adapting to climate change -- measuring how they evolve and how their biology changes as temperatures and carbon dioxide levels rise… [+4069 chars]
Researchers who assisted in pioneering the utilization of enzymes to break down plastic have taken a significant next step in engineering nature-based solutions to the plastics crisis worldwide. The… [+3165 chars]
The second class from China's Tiangong space station by Shenzhou-13 astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu will be held at 3:40 pm BJT on March 23. The second episode of the "Tiangong … [+705 chars]
First predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equ… [+2607 chars]
image: These six cubes show the simulated distribution of galaxies at redshifts 9, 8, 5, 3, 2, and 1, with the corresponding cosmic ages shown. As the universe expands, the density of galaxies within… [+8193 chars]
Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet that spent tens of thousands of years racing through the solar system, new data suggests. Scientists believe it was then vaporised by high tempe… [+6783 chars]
There is a significant hindrance to developing long-haul quantum communication systems: After a few hundred kilometers within an optical fiber, the photons that carry the qubits or ‘quantum bits’ (th… [+2602 chars]
The brightest comet of 2021 has disintegrated, according to EarthSky. An icy wanderer known as Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) fell apart during its perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, the report … [+4792 chars]
NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. The US space agency has added another 65 exoplanets to the online NASA Exoplanet Archi… [+7565 chars]
On March 11, a small, 6-foot-wide asteroid hit Earth off the coast of Norway. <ul><li>Technology from NASA tracked the rocks movements two hours before it hit the planet. </li><li>This technology c… [+2628 chars]
Researchers at Linköping University have, by way of a number of theoretical calculations, shown that magnesium diboride becomes superconductive at a higher temperature when it is stretched. The disco… [+4251 chars]
