A new study led by Syracuse University has shed more light on the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid 66 million years ago. This asteroid, which struck Mexicos northern Yucatán peninsula – … [+2367 chars]
Scientists have confirmed the speed of sound on Mars, using equipment on the Perseverance rover to study the red planet's atmosphere, which is very different to Earth's. What they discovered could… [+4618 chars]
For decades, scientists have chased the dream of quantum computing, which would transform information processing. An accompanying dream is long-distance quantum telecommunication, which would allow d… [+2937 chars]
Space can be terrifying. After all, there’s so much we just don’t know about the universe beyond our own planet’s atmosphere. While a lot of the scary parts of space–like no oxygen–can’t hurt us on E… [+2843 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope caught a galaxy on camera that underlies a much larger structure, known as the Virgo Cluster. The image of spiral galaxy NGC 4571, approximately 60 million light-years fro… [+2026 chars]
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Experiment designed for home or classroom shows how time, temperature affect diffusion. Marinated, or pickled, eggs are enjoyed by cultures around the world. There are Pennsylvania Dutch red-beet pi… [+2615 chars]
The Greenheugh pediment is an interesting plain in the Gale Crater on Mars. Orbital observations have revealed some pretty cool-looking terrains, which NASAs Curiosity rover has been slowly investiga… [+1563 chars]
Today, On March 23, NASA is planning to do something never heard of before. The American space agency will be shooting two rockets into the fascinating northern lights, also known as aurora borealis.… [+3181 chars]
A paper on the experiment titled "Experimental protocol for testing the mass-energy-information equivalence principle" has been published in the journal AIP Advances. Dr. Melvin Vopson of the Univer… [+1445 chars]
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Image processin… [+3056 chars]
Astronomy research facilities are the largest contributors to the space science sectors carbon footprint, with their total carbon footprint matching those of some small countries, estimates a new stu… [+3761 chars]
