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 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]
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]
The Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS) Team has landed the 2022 Page Medal for their incredible contribution to space research by finding 200 confirmed supernova across the dark skies. BOS… [+2776 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]
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… [+1457 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]
View larger. | Using these images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 taken on January 8, 2022, astronomers confirmed the biggest comet yet discovered is headed to the inner solar s… [+5321 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]
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]
NASA scrubbed the wet dress rehearsal of its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the third time. In a mission update shared recently, the agency revealed that the test was halted after engi… [+1793 chars]
Air Date: Week of April 15, 2022 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file An artists rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope, with the multilayered sunshield stretched out beneath the observ… [+22988 chars]
