Skip to content Researchers have mapped the genetic ties between every person who ever lived, in the "first draft" of our shared family history. Genetic research has exploded in the past two decad… [+6207 chars]
Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world’s cities and coastlines, a study has shown.The world… [+4777 chars]
This week, NASA announced that the 5,000th exoplanet had been confirmed. An exoplanet is an extra-solar planet, a planet orbiting around another star, not our sun in our solar system.
Asteroid 2013 BO76, which was approaching Earth on Thursday, has not impacted the planet, but it was the closest asteroid to pass Earth in 2022. The asteroid maintained its course at a speed of 50,00… [+2093 chars]
Asteroid Sar2594 (now officially called 2022 FD1) grazed Earths atmosphere at 08:10 UTC on March ... [+] 25, 2022 and passed through Earths mighty shadow in space as it cruised over the South Pacific… [+2110 chars]
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On Thursday, a potentially basketball-sized meteor streaked through the sky over Canada, capturing the attention of a slew of cameras and producing some spectacular videos. At around 2:46 a.m., a fi… [+3126 chars]
Jessica Watkins, a planetary scientist and NASA astronaut, will travel to the International Space Station on April 15 and will most likely be in space when the agencys Artemis 1 mission to the moon l… [+5579 chars]
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary, and then in through the aft optics assembly where t… [+4807 chars]
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — On March 17-18, NASA rolled its Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket out of the Kennedy Space Centers (KSC‘s) Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and 4.2 miles to Launc… [+5559 chars]
Skip to content Researchers have mapped the genetic ties between every person who ever lived, in the "first draft" of our shared family history. Genetic research has exploded in the past two decad… [+6207 chars]
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours' worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson, this… [+4214 chars]
