Medium‑sized black holes are extremely hard to detect, but new research has suggested that some may be located at the center of dense star clusters that are situated throughout the universe. Galaxy … [+4282 chars]
We're not going to stop saying it. The James Webb Space Telescope is going to change modern astronomy for keeps, in so many ways that it will outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope in scope and de… [+3887 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]
The sun is a beehive of flaring activity in a stunning new photo from a NASA spacecraft. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun in action as it flung a moderate-sized flare into space on W… [+2315 chars]
It’s hard not to love Europa. It is far and away the most promising of Jupiter’s 79 moons, covered in a rind of water ice perhaps 30 km (18 mi.) thick. Beneath the ice lies a salty, globe-girdling oc… [+3078 chars]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off for a record-tying 12th time on Thursday (April 21), and you can watch the action live. The two-stage Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Thursday at 11:14 a.m. … [+2891 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]
A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published today in AGU Advances, AGU’s jo… [+4395 chars]
32 years! Thats how much time has been spent by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover new galaxies, mesmerizing moments of stars, planets, and a lot more. Yes, it is the birthday of the Hubble Sp… [+2255 chars]
On February 18, 2021, NASAs Perseverance (Percy) Rover successfully landed in the dried-up lakebed known as Jezero Crater on Mars, beaming back images and video of its descent and landing to millions… [+5777 chars]
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes.Their reac… [+4612 chars]
