A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a … [+6111 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]
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]
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]
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]
Researchers at Dartmouth College have built the world's first superfluid circuit that uses pairs of ultracold electron-like atoms, according to a study published in Physical Review Letters. The labo… [+4193 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]
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]
NASA's life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover just reached a big mission milestone. Perseverance has arrived safely at the remains of an ancient Red Planet river delta on the floor of the 28-mile-wide… [+4321 chars]
The fireball streaked above Shropshire last week. (Gareth Oakey, UK Meteor Network) A huge fireball that streaked across the sky last week may have left a meteorite somewhere in Shropshire, scientis… [+2183 chars]
Originally discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or as researchers refer to them, FRBs, are one of the many mysteries of the universe that are yet to be fully explained by science. FRBs are a radio… [+1278 chars]
