TAMPA, Fla. British microlauncher startup Orbex unveiled a full-scale prototype May 11 of what it hopes will be the first-ever vertical rocket launched to orbit from British soil. The 19-meter two-s… [+2739 chars]
A new study performed at the University of Eastern Finland has shown that variations caused in both the size and distribution of the pine beauty moth population are connected to higher temperatures. … [+2581 chars]
ByAmerican Chemical SocietyMay 11, 2022 Plywood and other composite wood products are used extensively in home construction, furniture, and decor. They are often made using glues and resins that con… [+3196 chars]
ByNASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 11, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 (Caldwell 62), which has the nickname the Needles Eye. Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Feng (Tsin… [+3809 chars]
The shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today’s tropics, according to a new study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers. The stud… [+5918 chars]
ByNASAMay 11, 2022 NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare as seen in the bright flash towards the middle of the Sun on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The image shows a subset … [+2207 chars]
In our sun's neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the widest range of elements in a star beyond our solar system yet. T… [+5143 chars]
NASA's most iconic space telescope has spotted a star that survived the violent death of its companion. When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it explodes in a brilliant burst of light, a… [+4392 chars]
On the morning of 17 March, the worlds largest set of doors rolled open to reveal an aerospace marvel at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. There, in NASAs biggest building, stood i… [+15804 chars]
NASA has released a composite of Mars snaps that all share the same feature. Released last week, the patchwork consists of four bird's-eye view images snapped from above the red planet by an orbitin… [+1877 chars]
Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London used whale skulls to trace three waves of evolution among whalesScientists from the Natural History Museum in London have used whale skulls to expla… [+3659 chars]
Are we about to see the unseeable for a second time? Decades of calculations and data show there is a supermassive black hole, about 4 million times more massive than our sun, lurking at the heart of… [+3636 chars]