On the massive sheets of ice that stretch across Greenland and Antarctica, the temperature is so low that not even the summer sun can melt the snow deposited onto them. As the snow accumulates withou… [+3708 chars]
<ul><li>A team led by an Ohio State University professor analyzed over 4,000 mammal species to identify which animals are likely to have a hidden species.</li><li>Some yet-to-be-discovered species ar… [+3765 chars]
Although they are currently the greatest predators on land, its likely that modern-day cats wouldnt have been a match for the newly discovered Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae. At around 42 million year… [+6013 chars]
Where: Studio/office Chino Hills, CA USA When: 6-1-2020 Who/What: The represented asteroid is my ... [+] studio photograph of an actual (3" long) meteorite, and I added impact craters with PhotoShop … [+2061 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]
UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis but also poses hazards to satellit… [+4951 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]
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]
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]
The Hubble space telescope has peered back to the dawn of cosmic time and detected light from a star that existed within the first billion years after the Big Bang a new record, astronomers said Wedn… [+2703 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]
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]
