After a very active first quarter of 2022 which has seen an unprecedented three months for the potential to spot the northern lights across Wales, there doesn't appear to be any sign of such activity… [+1193 chars]
From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.Protein function heavily depends on their three-dimensional st… [+6342 chars]
NASA, after three failed attempts to complete a wet dress rehearsal of its Space Launch System, has decided to return its gigantic rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The move will likely mean f… [+3782 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]
A kindergartener in 2005 would have learned very different facts about the number of planets in the solar system than a kindergartener in 2006. Of course, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in … [+5749 chars]
Every now and then, NASA sweeps its fans off their feet by sharing mesmerising photographs of the cosmic entities clicked by its many space telescopes such as Hubble. The agency has did it again with… [+1986 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]
Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. Gravitational waves form when m… [+2427 chars]
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]
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]
A map of the flight paths engineers were considering for the Ingenuity helicopter’s 25th flight. Ultimately “Option C” was chosen. Credit: NASA NASAs Ingenuity Mars helicopter completed its 25th fli… [+3523 chars]
A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week and erupted with a medium-size solar flare, along with a mass ejection of plasma, also lit up the northern skies in glowing lights. One stunning image o… [+2945 chars]