CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Third time's a charm? Well, NASA and Boeing Space sure hope so as a new target launch date has been set for the previously plagued Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the In… [+2186 chars]
A butterfly-shaped stellar nursery twinkles in red and orange in a beautiful photo recently released by NASA. The agency's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of the aptly named Butterfly N… [+2117 chars]
The amount of heat and moisture that atmospheric rivers transport is higher than it would be without global warming, Dr. Clem said. So the air mass that slams into Antarctica is much, much warmer. An… [+1606 chars]
200 supernova found by six mates enabling discoveries about the evolution of stars and the ingredients of life. Ex-miner from Broken Hill discovers a massive electrical storm on Saturn and guides NA… [+2877 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]
We are living it totally crazy times, and if you dont think so, you havent been paying attention. For the first time in modern history, it is no longer fringe to believe in UFOs. Unidentified Flying … [+20240 chars]
Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. Pictured is an artist's illustration showing how the MeerKAT telescope detected this record-breaking megamaser. … [+29207 chars]
About every 15 years, the RS Ophiuchi star system goes nova. Suddenly it becomes much brighter, as plasma is thrown out of the system at high speed. Knowing its regular behavior and thanks to two qui… [+2208 chars]
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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]
The contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, often dubbed the worlds first computer, was first turned on on 22 December 178 BC, claims a study published in preprint online journal arXiv. An el… [+5255 chars]
Similar to the widespread interest in graphite and diamond, there is growing interest in metastable phases, which have different physical properties than those of stable phases. However, processes to… [+3205 chars]
