UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Tiny beetles that feed on fruit from the palm family may have developed their taste for coconuts long ago, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists studying suspected i… [+3893 chars]
A research paper, which was published in Nature Astronomy, suggested that the space should receive special legal protection in order to preserve and protect its environment from debris and light poll… [+1665 chars]
New research surrounding Pluto has revealed that the planet is subjected to chaotic perturbance and changes over shorter time scales, with the planet being stable, relatively, at larger timescales. … [+1714 chars]
NASA is pushing the pause button to the start of its newest moonshot program. On Monday, personnel at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, began to roll back the 5.75-milli… [+2403 chars]
American space firm Astrobotic has unveiled the flight model of its Peregrine lunar lander, which it aims to send to the Moon this year. The flight model is the version of Peregrine that will actuall… [+2300 chars]
For the last week, three extremely wealthy men have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), having been stranded there by bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, from which t… [+1791 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to observe a distant "wispy" or "ultra-diffuse" galaxy called GAMA 526784. The European Space Agency (ESA) has published a new image snapped by the Hubble Sp… [+1077 chars]
ByUniversity of California - RiversideApril 25, 2022 A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the s… [+2201 chars]
So-called kagome metals, named after the Japanese woven bamboo pattern their structure resembles, feature symmetrical patterns of interlaced, corner-sharing triangles. This unusual lattice geometry a… [+4485 chars]
In 1676, by studying the motion of Jupiter's moon Io, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer calculated that light travels at a finite speed. Two years later, building on data gathered by Rømer, Dutch mathemati… [+6818 chars]
By Doug Norrie | 2 hours ago Ever been able to see a moon crash all the way into a planet before? Me neither, but one day folks might get that very chance. Though its going to take a while. Scienti… [+2717 chars]
The first all-private astronaut crew to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) headed for splashdown Monday off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a two-week mission that NASA has touted as … [+2877 chars]
