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]
image: Workflow and computational steps for the SOAP and HRP Methodsview more Credit: Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni The ability to visually represent artefacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic an… [+3908 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]
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]
The Butterfly Nebula has been captured in an awe-inspiring image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The nebula is officially known as W… [+3062 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]
Virtual travel to space is possible! Thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which did it through what it calls the holoport. NASA virtually teleported a doctor hundreds o… [+2386 chars]
Washington, April 15 NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter, originally expected to fly only five times, has aced its 25th flight on the Red Planet, setting new personal bests for speed and distance. Wei… [+1964 chars]
Scott Kelly, NASA From now until early July, the five nearest planets to Earth will slowly join a celestial conga line across the pre-dawn sky. These rare, but not once-in-a-lifetime conjunctions o… [+1815 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]
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]