The massive Jan. 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga submarine volcano in the South Pacific Ocean created a variety of atmospheric wave types, including booms heard 6,200 miles away in Alaska. It also cr… [+4822 chars]
A new NASA video shows some of the black holes closest to Earth, as well as the stars that feed them. The visualization shows 22 X-ray binaries in both our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Lar… [+2395 chars]
Scientists current best theories about the arrangement of the cosmos suggest that small galaxies should be distributed around their host galaxies in seemingly random orbits. But observations have fo… [+2647 chars]
A new study from North Carolina State University shows the behavioral mechanism behind a sweet cockroach mating ritual that takes a bitter turn, resulting in rejected males. Male German cockroaches … [+6321 chars]
ByPurdue UniversityMay 12, 2022 Two supermassive black holes orbit one another in a binary system. They are 10 times closer to each other than the black holes in the only other known supermassive bi… [+4258 chars]
PARIS (AFP) - An international team of astronomers on Thursday (May 12) unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy - a cosmic body known as Sagitt… [+2348 chars]
Is there sound in space? New audio released from NASA provides some insight – and the answer is haunting. The audio, released on May 4, is that of a black hole from the center of the Perseus galaxy… [+2397 chars]
Conceptual drawing of a Mars Sample Retrieval Lander. (Image credit: NASA) The robotic return of pristine samples from the surface of Mars has been a holy grail goal of Red Planet investigators for … [+10916 chars]
A spectacularly preserved arrow from the Iron Age — complete with its iron arrowhead, sinew wrappings and aerodynamic feather fletching — is now in the hands of glacial archaeologists in Norway. It'… [+3274 chars]
Humans like to look up at clouds and spot fun shapes like dragons and puppies. Last Friday, a weather satellite from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked down and spotted a gian… [+1199 chars]
WASHINGTON: That's one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man's knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apol… [+2294 chars]
A purely mechanical method can produce a novel, more sustainable fertiliser in a less polluting way. That is the result of a method optimised at DESY's light source PETRA III. An international team u… [+7036 chars]
