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]
Our morning sky presents a good demonstration that the planets do indeed move, and that they all dont move at the same rate, nor always in the same direction. The planetary trio of Venus, Mars, and S… [+3518 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 wor… [+5428 chars]
Pictured from left, are the Soyuz MS-19 crew ship and the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module with the Prichal docking module attached. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Roscosmos … [+2540 chars]
A dazzling ball of light is seen falling from the night sky while Stairway to Heaven blares over the automobile speakers in a dashcam clip north of Winnipeg. The large thing left a trail of light beh… [+2661 chars]
Collecting satellite data for research is a group effort thanks to this app developed for Android users. Camaliot is a campaign funded by the European Space Agency, and its first project focuses on m… [+5214 chars]
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have relea… [+2184 chars]
On 18 February, ESA’s Gaia observatory snapped NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Gaia arrived in orbits around the Lagrange point 2 (L2) in 2014, whereas Webb arrived in the orbits around the … [+1557 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]
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]
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]
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