It's hard to understand just how truly big something is without seeing it, or at least having something to compare it to. Understanding how large objects can be in space is a common problem for some… [+883 chars]
by German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig With the extinction of large, non-flying dinosaurs 66 million years ago, large herbivores were missing on Earth for th… [+3658 chars]
In April of 2019, the international astronomical consortium known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made headlines worldwide when it announced the first-ever image of a black hole. Specifically, t… [+2682 chars]
New Delhi: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project will hold a press conference to present new Milky Way results from the EHT. In 2019, the EHT collabora… [+3226 chars]
Research has long suggested that stars like our Sun rarely occur individually. Usually, there are one or more sibling stars scattered nearby. The fact that the Sun doesn't have an established twin is… [+10174 chars]
As per the news story of Flying Magazine, the aircraft, known as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), will be retired this year after hundreds of missions to study the moon, … [+2999 chars]
A cross-disciplinary University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) team has demonstrated a major breakthrough in using automated synthesis to discover new molecules for organic electronics applic… [+8156 chars]
Skip to content The bot could one day bounce across the moon for NASA. A new jumping robot can soar nearly 100 feet into the air with a single leap and one day it might use the ability to explore t… [+1808 chars]
The first partial solar eclipse of this year- which took place on Saturday, April 30- was visible across Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This part… [+1049 chars]
NASA is asking the public to comment on an environmental assessment for its Mars sample return effort. The project, a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), aims to bring to Earth sampl… [+2810 chars]
Scientists have detected the brightest pulsar ever observed outside the Milky Way, revealing the true identity of a far-off luminous object previously mistaken for a distant galaxy. Pulsars are incr… [+4475 chars]
A strong solar flare was emitted by the Sun on Saturday, April 30, 2022. An image of the event was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which keeps an eye on solar activity, the agency… [+1131 chars]
