A high amplitude light beam was discovered radiating from the farthest extent beyond interplanetary space ever. It's a form of inextensible astronomical particle known as a megamaser, and its radiat… [+3890 chars]
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]
After almost exactly three years, the US government has confirmed a hypothesis by a pair of Harvard astrophysicists that an interstellar object crashed into the Pacific Ocean. In a previously classi… [+3349 chars]
Scientists have recently begun spying on Europe's most active volcano using an unusual new surveillance device: fiber-optic cables. Researchers revealed how they utilized a technology known as distr… [+3198 chars]
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. An analysis of ocean water around the world has uncovered a trove of previously undiscovered viruses, researchers have reported. An international team of researchers tracked ocea… [+1679 chars]
An unseen obstacle in the cloud of gas around a supernova remnant 11,000 light years away is making the supernovas blast waves lopsided, according to two recent studies. Two teams of astrophysicis… [+9083 chars]
More than 13 months after the Perseverance rover landed on Mars (on February 18, 2021), the rovers cameras have finally spotted some of the parts of the Mars 2020 landing system that got the rover sa… [+3743 chars]
Regardless of who we are or where we come from, everyone at some point in their lives ponders whether or not life exists beyond the Earth. For the first time in human history, we now possess the info… [+4042 chars]
A decade ago, physicists wondered whether the discovery of the Higgs boson at Europes Large Hadron Collider would point to a new frontier beyond the Standard Model of subatomic particles. So far, tha… [+5346 chars]
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed details behind two super-hot Jupiter planets, one where it rains vapourised rock and another where its atmosphere is being sunburned by its s… [+2244 chars]
On Earth, the situation is dire. Russia is bombing civilian and military targets in Ukraine. In space, however, cosmonauts are working side by side with astronauts from the European Union. This coop… [+7836 chars]
