This image, snapped on March 31, 2022, from the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech… [+2355 chars]
The average atmospheric temperature of Neptune fell by 8 degrees Celsius (°C) during 2003-2020, according to a new study. The period covers the first half of the summer on the planet that started in… [+3367 chars]
Methane is the most important hydrocarbon in the atmosphere. It is a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists from Radboud University demonstrated that it could generate power from methane-consuming bacter… [+1662 chars]
NASAs Hubble Space Telescope is studying a class of ultra-hot bloated Jupiter-sized exoplanets that are so close to their parent star that they are at temperatures above 1600 degrees Celsius. Accordi… [+3125 chars]
NASAs DART mission to redirect an asteroid is billed as potentially planet-saving. But in the wrong hands it has seriously destructive potential. In September 2022 an event of planetary importance w… [+6360 chars]
The supernova explosion that triggered the birth of the solar system, by exciting a cloud of gas and dust, has been recreated in a lab using a laser and foam ball. Molecular clouds, like the one tha… [+7573 chars]
Encyclopedia Britannica defines sound as a "mechanical disturbance from a state of equilibrium that propagates through an elastic material medium." Basically, what we think of as sound is caused by w… [+930 chars]
In 2014, a strange asteroid exploded above the skies of Papua New Guinea. The strangeness of the asteroid lay in the fact that it was moving at a mind-blowing speed of 210,000 km/h! This speed was so… [+1921 chars]
Methane is the most important hydrocarbon in the atmosphere. It is a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists from Radboud University demonstrated that it could generate power from methane-consuming bacter… [+1662 chars]
The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration, which involves 400 scientists from around the world, have measured the mass of the W boson, one of natures force-carrying particles. The measur… [+3566 chars]
The Antikythera Mechanism, an incredible 2,000-year-old artifact that became the earliest known analog computer, has captured the imagination of the public and experts alike since it was recovered fr… [+3910 chars]
A collection of neurons that holds specific memory have been identified in the hippocampus, amygdala, or cortex. However, it has been theorized that engrams of a particular memory are distributed amo… [+6213 chars]
