While we all know that dinosaurs died because of a massive asteroid strike against the Earth, many of us still do not understand how an asteroid that impacted one local geographic location can kill a… [+2087 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]
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]
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]
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… [+1456 chars]
Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth. … [+2530 chars]
Published: 6:00am, 16 Apr, 2022 Updated: 6:32am, 16 Apr, 2022
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
