The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 chars]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s been 50 years since humans first walked on the moon. Since then, astronauts have primarily explored low Earth orbit. Now that NASA is preparing to return to th… [+6108 chars]
Spacecraft materials don’t just need to have the right characteristics to fly — they have to endure high levels of heat, friction, and stress. In order to overcome these challenges, strong and long-l… [+3928 chars]
Yes, get your jokes in now The planet Uranus, seen from Voyager 2. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech The space science community thinks the time is ripe to study Uranus in depth and theyre being serious. A … [+8433 chars]
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptunes atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptunes global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic… [+8068 chars]
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week, offering a possible opportunity to see a dozen or so meteors an hour streaking across the night sky. The Lyrids occur each year when Earth's orbit takes it … [+4180 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune." Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanat… [+3330 chars]
Since late March, the sun has been unleashing solar flares powerful enough to cause radio blackouts on Earth, including one that occurred on Easter Sunday and shut down radios in parts of Asia and Au… [+4435 chars]
Rydberg polaritons switch continually from light to matter and back again. In Rydberg polaritons, light and matter are like two sides of a coin, and the matter side is what makes polaritons interact … [+1585 chars]
The planets in our solar system are all unique in their way. In terms of temperature, no two planets have the same one since it is the result of various processes. Generally, a planets temperature is… [+7459 chars]
A low-res version of the high resolution image of the Sun from Solar Orbiter. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) A few weeks ago I wrote about a ground-break… [+7341 chars]
