Human explorers on the Moon may be able to send back unprecedented, finely detailed maps of the lunar surface, thanks to a new backpack device developed by NASA and its partners. It's called the Kin… [+3865 chars]
For the first time since 947 AD, four planets will line up across the southeastern sky tomorrow morning. If you head outside just before sunrise, from around 4:30am to 5am AEST, you can get a glimps… [+1275 chars]
The first solar eclipse of 2022 is coming on April 30. There will be a narrow band of visibility across parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Or… [+8058 chars]
Stargazers will be treated with a new celestial event as the Lyrid meteor shower will light up the sky on Friday night and Saturday morning. Starting on April 15, the meteor shower will continue till… [+1813 chars]
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system, nicknamed the Angel Wing. Unlike chance alignments of galaxies, which only appear to overlap wh… [+1598 chars]
Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that c… [+4032 chars]
According to a survey conducted by dating app Bumble, the pandemic has changed our approach to finding love. People are more willing to try new things this year, according to the survey, with 48 perc… [+5301 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-breakin… [+7467 chars]
Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of … [+2123 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider measures the mass of the top quark with unparalleled accuracy. Credit: CERN Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to u… [+3278 chars]
The Sun has become a beehive of solar activity lately. Since April 15, the Earth has been bombarded by one solar storm after another as a result of non-stop solar flare eruption on the surface of the… [+2161 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been fired up again after a three year break for maintenance and upgrades with the first beam sent around the tunnel just before 10am BST this morning. The LHC wo… [+13327 chars]