Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals with the submersible Alvin. Hydrothermal vents on t… [+4929 chars]
Nagin Cox wants to make sure someone has wished you a happy landiversary. Where she works, its an event akin to New Years or the Fourth of July, though it has more to do with rockets than fireworks.… [+7575 chars]
A pair of researchers from Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS and Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR, respectively, has used math to help describe the process involved when short strands of fiber are twisted into lo… [+2795 chars]
Washington: Internal email documents of NASA indicate that the US space agency officials have dismissed concerns raised by the LGBTQ community over the name of the James Webb Space Telescope. The fl… [+2665 chars]
NASA has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX six additional flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) agreements for up to $14 billion. Northrop Grumman, a US… [+2049 chars]
When the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto in 2015, it snapped photos of what appeared to be two massive ice volcanoes. Image released on 29 March 2022 shows a perspective view of Pluto's ic… [+5408 chars]
Ancient, primordial helium that was forged in the wake of the Big Bang is leaking from Earth's core, scientists report in a new study. There's no cause for alarm. Earth isn't deflating like a sad ba… [+3656 chars]
After a technical review, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed yesterday that its Mars rover, part of the ExoMars space mission, was ready for launch. The only problem: The rover has neither a r… [+5682 chars]
Enlarge/ A rendering of the star V Hydrae, or V Hya for short. In its death throes, the star emitted a series of expanding rings that scientists calculated are being formed every few hundred years, p… [+6258 chars]
On January 15, the volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai devastated the nation of Tonga. The eruption triggered tsunamis as far afield as the Caribbean and generated atmospheric waves that traveled aroun… [+9624 chars]
Skip to content Gaia spotted Webb from 620,000 miles away. NASAs James Webb Space Telescope is turning out to be a photogenic spacecraft. In the three months since its launch, Webb has already sen… [+2908 chars]
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. In detecting alien life on a faraway planet, methane may be the key For humankind, evidence for life beyond Earth is unlikely to be as dramati… [+2929 chars]
