Light on, light off — this is how one could describe the behavior of the nova, which goes by the name RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph). Every 15 years or so, a dramatic explosion occurs in the constellation of t… [+2530 chars]
For years, scientists have long questioned the viability of predicting protein functional shapes through the concept of understanding their initial foundational structure or building blocks of the pr… [+4737 chars]
The South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon formed from a gigantic impact about 4.3 billion years ago. But that impact may have changed everything about the Moon, and explain why the lunar farside looks … [+4719 chars]
Reported By:| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Apr 19, 2022, 03:05 PM ISTThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is the official space agency of the US, … [+2108 chars]
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As it turns out, littering in space can result in much more than a fine and a slap on the wrist. NASA reported in May 2021 that there were 23,000 objects "bigger than a softball" currently floating a… [+1092 chars]
Above Santa Barbara County, the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series, or SHIFT, campaign collects data to understand land and aquatic ecosystems. With a plane crisscrossing the sky… [+4508 chars]
On the eve of the release of the planetary science decadal survey, which is expected to reduce the emphasis on Mars, scientists and NASA officials are planning how to continue exploring the planet wi… [+5385 chars]
The dust buildup on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's InSight Mars lander is severe enough to see from orbit. You can see the red Martian regolith covering the lander, which touched down in Novem… [+2706 chars]
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the pictureamong the public… [+8831 chars]
The path to faster and more powerful quantum computers could be paved with a gemstone called cuprite. Its unique properties have long made it useful for quantum research, but a new experiment could p… [+2985 chars]
Astronomers are one step closer to observing gravitational waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, all thanks to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - a powerful… [+2202 chars]
