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]
The Ingenuity helicopter has captured a unique bird's-eye perspective of the gear that helped land the Perseverance rover on Mars. During its one-year anniversary flight on April 19, the little chop… [+4173 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]
There are cells in the body known as pluripotent stem cells that are yet to specialize in a particular biological function. These cells maintain the potential to become any of the possible cell types… [+5400 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]
In the winter, the woods of New Hampshire are littered with small, frozen frogs. Although a frozen wood frogs heart does not beat, the frog is not dead. It is in an state of suspended animation: an a… [+748 chars]
Your artwork could fly to the moon. The Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), a space development company, and the community space program LifeShip have partnered to launch a competition that will sen… [+2747 chars]
Artists impression of exocomets orbiting the star ß Pictoris. Credit: © ESO/L. Calçada For the past thirty years, astronomers have been fascinated with the star ß Pictoris because it allows them to … [+1510 chars]
