In a nutshell: The European Space Agency has outlined its plans and goals for an upcoming mission to Jupiter. With any luck, Juice - short for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - will bring us a step cl… [+1272 chars]
Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet colliding catastrophically with Earth always feature a key scene: a lone astronomer sees the wandering chunk of space hurtling towards us, causing panic and … [+7115 chars]
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed scien… [+7267 chars]
Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California’s Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain’s depths after … [+6014 chars]
With its runaway climate-change and roiling, toxic atmosphere, Venus would be a pretty unpleasant place for humans to inhabit in its current state. Its atmosphere is dense with poisonous carbon dioxi… [+7785 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]
The Sun has been the source of life on Earth. It is also a never-ending source of human curiosity and keeps throwing up surprises as it just did. An unexpected phenomenon has been discovered on the S… [+1944 chars]
The ice cover surrounding Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere slowly expands between March and October every year. During this period, the entire ice area grows by six times to become bigger than R… [+4372 chars]
