The Mars lander InSight photographed an austere Martian sunrise earlier this week. The probe has called Mars home since 2018 and has taken thousands of images during its time there, while also collec… [+1876 chars]
image: Circadian rhythms of the phosphorylation cycle (red circle with P indicating the phosphor transfer) and the ATP hydrolysis cycle (blue circle with ATP and ADP indicating the conversion of Aden… [+4862 chars]
An event described in the Chinese Bamboo Annals is considered by some a description of a bright aurora. If so, at almost 3,000 years old, this would be the earliest account of such an event whose dat… [+3577 chars]
Solar flares coincide yet are part of our Sun's recurring 11-year cycle, divided into the minimum and maximum phases. Depending on the phase, the occurrence of solar activities such as solar storms m… [+3466 chars]
A tug-of-war between neighboring stars led to the formation of two strange types of red giant star, as seen in the eyes of a lost telescope. Astronomers reported finding 40 examples of two different… [+3448 chars]
For all their death-defying abilities, one thing that tardigrades are pretty rubbish at is walking long distances, though new research suggests that the podgy little moss piglets may be able to overc… [+3316 chars]
The ability to visually represent artifacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of anthrop… [+4291 chars]
An international team of researchers who published a paper in the journal Science in 2016 describing their discovery of an exoplanet with three stars, has now retracted that paper. In their original… [+2341 chars]
Larsen-C Ice Shelf +175km Crack (as of 3 March 2017) [Middle-To-Top]. Source - O.V.E.R.V.I.E.W. CC SA 2.0. The rapid collapses of two ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last quarter-ce… [+3543 chars]
Follow the pollen. Records from past plant life tell the real story of global temperatures, according to research from a climate scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Warmer temperatures … [+3778 chars]
Published: 6:00am, 16 Apr, 2022 Updated: 6:32am, 16 Apr, 2022
Comets aren't known for being gargantuan, but there are clearly exceptions to that rule. Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted the largest known comet to date, C/2014 UN271 (Berna… [+1456 chars]
