In the solar system, there are thousands of near-Earth asteroids, and sometimes one will have a close approach with Earth. Krisztian Sarneczky, a Hungarian astronomer at the Konkoly Observatory, man… [+997 chars]
NASA: Endless asteroids keep zooming past the Earth at astonishing speeds, always posing the risk to threaten our existence. A couple of them, most popularly 2022 EB5, have even struck the Earth. Tha… [+2183 chars]
Becoming an astronaut is a pretty common dream for kids in kindergarten. Going to Mars or orbiting the Earth is just one of those things that captures the minds of our kids. It seems outlandish and a… [+2003 chars]
Researchers from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences observed and verified for the first time that the coronal wave train totally reflected at the coronal hole boundary, which pro… [+2617 chars]
The "chaos" regions on Jupiter's moon Europa might hold keys to the possible existence of life in the ocean under the moon's icy crust. A fresh look at an older theory lends more weight to the idea … [+4018 chars]
New research is uncovering the link between parrots’ long lives, and their big brains. Image via Pixabay. A study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) reports … [+4405 chars]
The CIC biomaGUNE Molecular and Functional Biomarkers group has developed a rapid, cost-effective, synthetic, microwave method for producing ultra-small manganese ferrite nanoparticles that act as ad… [+4563 chars]
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is expanding its ability to more accurately identify where fast radio bursts (FRBs) are coming from. The organization is constructing a new … [+3247 chars]
Azimuthal anisotropy (black dashed lines showing the fast direction of wave speeds) in the mantle at 200 km depth plotted on top of vertically polarized shear wave speed perturbations (dVsv) after 20… [+8193 chars]
Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900 km (1,800 miles) below the surface, almost… [+5294 chars]
Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could potentially help sustain alien life, according to a new … [+3779 chars]
Very few people who think about watches think very much about clocks. But clocks were here long before watches (a lot longer if you count things like sundials and water clocks, and I do), and they wi… [+6810 chars]
