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]
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped an image of a barred spiral galaxy called M91. Also known as NGC 4548 or Messier 91, the galaxy is located approximately 55 million light-years from E… [+804 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]
Fossil trilobites. getty Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - an extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over… [+2410 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]
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]
The Milky Way and Lyrid meteors falling through the sky at the Bathing House in Northumberland (Getty) Make sure to watch the skies this week as the annual Lyrid meteor shower lights up the skies ab… [+2343 chars]
A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation , non-ionizing and io… [+3793 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]
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]
A fireball may have dropped some leftovers on Canada after sizzling through the sky. getty The Sunday night sky over Ontario was lit up by literal fire in the sky, which probably then dropped actu… [+1955 chars]
According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), a powerful solar flare on the surface of the Sun caused radio blackouts in Asia and Australia. On Sunday, April 17, a solar flare peaked an… [+2172 chars]
