A fresh count of exoplanets floating through space has surpassed the 5,000 mark, with NASA confirming the latest batch of planets outside the immediate solar family. As of March 21, NASA added 65 … [+2477 chars]
Artist’s conception of the Webb Telescope in space. Credit: NASA The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) will observe the Universe in the near-infrared and mid-infrared – at wavelengths longer than vi… [+1985 chars]
Near-Earth asteroids are interlopers from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter composed of rocky debris left over when our solar system formed. Planet Earth is at risk of colliding with an aste… [+4421 chars]
How life originated on Earth? This is one of the most interesting questions whose answer is not yet known. However, continuous research is going on to find out the origin of life on Earth. And now as… [+2849 chars]
Its recommended that people get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week. But the part of this advice that people often ignore is that we should do muscle strengthening exercises … [+5484 chars]
News avoidance is a topical phenomenon. Now amidst the distressing news from the war in Ukraine, many people may wish to skip news altogether or at least temporarily. A recent research article exami… [+2983 chars]
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid have made a peculiar discovery in which energy moves from a colder to a hotter region. They describe how a quantum ef… [+4078 chars]
Dinosaurs rose and departed 26 million decades ago. Pangea divided further into different archipelagos we recognize nowadays, and humanity swiftly and profoundly reshaped the planet we dwell on. Desp… [+3639 chars]
Working with a quantum material known as a kagome magnet, a team of Boston College physicists and colleagues have directly measured how individual electronic quantum states in the novel material resp… [+4410 chars]
The ESA said the spacecraft will gradually raise its orientation in future orbits to view the sun’s previously unobserved polar regions. The Solar Orbiter – which aims to unlock the secrets of the s… [+2539 chars]
According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) more than five percent of the world’s population is affected by hearing loss and deafness, which is mostly caused by loss of hair cells i… [+4885 chars]
The center of Lagoon Nebula, captured by the Hubble Telescope. Nebulae are the primary sources of helium-3, and the amount of He-3 leaking from the Earth’s core suggests the planet formed inside the … [+3454 chars]
