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]
With their razor-sharp teeth and agility in the water, sharks are without a doubt one of the most terrifying predators to roam the planet. Now, a new study has shed light on their feeding habits - a… [+4117 chars]
Archerfishes are the anti-aircraft gunners of the aquatic world. The fishes are famed for their amazing ability to shoot down land-based insects midflight with highly accurate streams of water they p… [+5357 chars]
The Hubble space telescope has a primary mirror of 2.4 meters. The Nancy Grace Roman telescope also has a mirror measuring 2.4 meters, and the James Webb Space Telescope has a whopping 6.5 meter prim… [+3620 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]
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]
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]
Photographer Christy Turner captured the aurora borealis on Sunday near Calgary, Alberta. Christy Turner/Spaceweather.com A blast of charged particles from the sun created an unexpected geomagnetic… [+1825 chars]
STARGAZERS have not one but TWO celestial displays to look forward to in the coming days. The Lyrids meteor shower and a full pink moon will both grace night skies above the U.S. and U.K. this week.… [+2580 chars]
Quantum computers, machines that leverage quantum states to perform computations and store data, could soon revolutionize the computing industry, achieving significantly greater speeds and performanc… [+6501 chars]
After decades worth of research, scientists came to know that the universe emerged after the big bang about 14 billion years ago and has been undergoing rapid expansion ever since. Given that we alre… [+2095 chars]
A giant impact billions of years ago near Earth’s moon’s south pole may help explain why the near side and far side are so different. The face that the moon shows to Earth looks far different from t… [+3940 chars]
