Two Russian cosmonauts will spend hours spacewalking outside the International Space Station today (April 28) and you can watch them work in the void live online. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis… [+2116 chars]
Not to alarm anyone, but several scientists are saying we need to revamp our entire understanding of the universe. Instead of a uniformly expanding cosmos that looks more or less the same anywhere yo… [+1999 chars]
From a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself, James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the Universe so went the launch narration when astronomys latest superpowered space explorer, th… [+4282 chars]
By the year 2300, life in the oceans faces a mass die-off rivalling the great extinctions of Earths deep past if humanity fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Reuters pic WASHINGTON, April 29 By … [+2113 chars]
What is that large dark smudge on Jupiters side? It may remind you of a certain scene from the sci-fi film 2010: The Year We Make Contact, where a growing black spot appears in Jupiter’s atmosphere. … [+2710 chars]
Scientists have been studying the sediments within Mars' Gale crater for many years using orbital data sets, but thanks to the Curiosity rover driving across these deposits we can also obtain up-clos… [+5707 chars]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has launched on April 27 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking four astronauts and new cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The Falcon 9 recently li… [+1684 chars]
This transcript has been edited for clarity Eric J. Topol, MD: This is really a great occasion to have a chance to meet with Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg and discuss the remarkable progress a… [+30135 chars]
-Aparna Venkatesan, University of San Francisco Disclaimer: Beyond astro-ph articles are not necessarily intended to be representative of the views of the entire Astrobites collaboration, nor do the… [+10654 chars]
A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes. The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is the stronges… [+3561 chars]
Imagine a mountaineering expedition in a wholly uncharted environment, where the hikers had the ability to generate a real-time 3D map of the terrain. NASA researchers and their industry partners hav… [+6149 chars]
Miniaturization in electronic devices plays a key role in the further development of modern technologies and makes it possible to manufacture smaller devices with more power. One of the major challen… [+2029 chars]
