NASA: On Tuesday, April 19, one moderate and a strong solar flare erupted on the surface of the Sun and now more solar storms can hit the Earth. In the last few days, the Earth has been a victim of i… [+1946 chars]
Scientists at NASA have invented a new metal alloy thats 1,000 times more durable that currently used state-of-the-art materials used in aviation and aerospace vehicles. NASA Also read: Five Mass E… [+1776 chars]
A new survey of over 100 galaxies has found that black holes raze thousands of stars and use their remains to pack on weight. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, could help ex… [+1729 chars]
Even more information can be gained from those pterosaur feathers. The study indicates they were fairly small, meaning that they weren't used to help the animal fly. Instead, the feathers could have … [+1242 chars]
The National Science Foundation has announced this year's winners of the prestigious Alan T. ... [+] Waterman Award, named after NSF's first director. getty The U.S. National Science Foundation ann… [+4666 chars]
NASA's massive new space telescope just keeps getting colder. While the James Webb Space Telescope's slow cooling process is nearing its end, NASA officials wrote in an update, there's no firm timel… [+3698 chars]
A team of researchers studying 22.5-million-year-old spider fossils from Aix-en-Provence were taken aback when the petrified pests glowed under a fluorescent microscope. The fluorescence was likely d… [+3256 chars]
An international research team uses a global sampling of seawater to reveal which tropical reef fish occur where. To identify species and families, they successfully used the residual DNA shed by the… [+5848 chars]
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A key committee of scientists has recommended that a flagship mission to Uranus should be NASA's highest-priority large planetary science mission for the next decade. Uranus is a mostly unexplored… [+7969 chars]
image: From left: Dr. Zhenpeng Qin, associate professor of mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering doctoral student Yaning Liu and Dr. Haihang Ye, research associate in mechanical engineering,… [+5082 chars]
At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, an international research group made use of computer model simulations to determine that climate change is changing the mechanics of surfac… [+3355 chars]
