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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
By Doug Norrie | 1 hour ago As we peer out into the cosmos, into the furthest reaches of the known (and even unknown) galaxies, it stands to reason that we will continue to new objects for the firs… [+2760 chars]
