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]
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]
The pancreas is a key metabolic regulator. When pancreatic beta cells cease producing enough insulin, blood sugar levels rise dangerously — a phenomenon known as hyperglycemia — thus triggering diabe… [+4958 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]
Yesterday, two Russian cosmonauts spent six hours and 37 minutes in low Earth orbit installing a giant robotic arm on the International Space Station thats designed to work autonomously, move its way… [+2802 chars]
An expert has warned that a message broadcast out to space revealing Earth’s location could provoke an invasion from aliens. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a basic one ca… [+1232 chars]
Hubble spotted this wild grouping of five galaxies known as Hickson Compact Group 40. Science: NASA, ESA, STScI/Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Candles, schmandles. The Hubble Space Telescop… [+1924 chars]
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) satellite orbiting Mars has captured another piece of NASA equipment on the surface of the Red Planet. An image captured by the MRO's High Resolution Imaging… [+975 chars]
Zoom/ A trapped blow fly on a carnivorous dewy plant. Cathy Kiefer | GT Towards the end of the 19th century, horrific stories about killer plants began to appear everywhere. Terrible tentacled tree… [+4644 chars]
A Cornell University research highlights a success in the attempt to boost photosynthesis in certain crops, a step toward adapting plants to rapid climate change and raising yields to feed the world'… [+3559 chars]
The Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i captured a strange flying whirlpool whizzing across the night sky at the weekend. Anyone looking up would have been very curious at its cause, before probably shruggin… [+2691 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]
