After spending about 10 days in orbit, crew members of the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, will return to Earth next week. The cre… [+1218 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]
It seemed like there was a new bit of news on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) every few days earlier this year, but we haven’t heard as much from the revolutionary observatory lately. That’s be… [+2691 chars]
The location map of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Adapted from Han and Zhou 2017. Credit: Wongtszyanyuki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Mesozoic granitoids, ranging from the Triassic to the Cret… [+2539 chars]
A little more than a month after observing gamma radiation from a nova burst in the RS Ophiuchi system, astronomers announced the detection of high energy cosmic rays as well, from the same system. R… [+2438 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]
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]
<ul><li>The average Lyrid shower produces 15 to 20 meteors per hour.</li><li>The Lyrids have been observed for more than 2,700 years.</li><li>The meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Lyra… [+2235 chars]
