Asteroid 388945 will pass us from a distance of about 2.5 million miles away. Space scientists have warned that a huge asteroid is heading towards the Earth. According to American space agency NASA … [+1853 chars]
At first glance, a 51-ion system may appear to be easy to use. But even if these charged atoms are only changed back and forth between two states, the result is more than two quadrillion (1015) diffe… [+3278 chars]
THE Sun may surprise us with a solar storm this Friday the 13th. After a week of multiple eruptions on the Sun, space weather experts think we could expect a "glancing blow" from another CME today. … [+2156 chars]
Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in smal… [+4623 chars]
Titan looks suspiciously like our own planet when you observe it. However, Saturns moon and our own Earth couldnt be any more different. Where landscapes are made of silicate-based sediments on Earth… [+3073 chars]
The phrase "black hole" was coined because black holes suck all light in, leaving nothing optical to observe. Yet humans have managed to take photos of these mystic supermassive space objects lightye… [+1267 chars]
SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites and land a rocket on a ship at sea on Friday (May 13), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket ca… [+2099 chars]
On Thursday, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released the imagery of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*. It is a direct detection of one… [+8125 chars]
The transgenic papaya "SunUp" was developed in the 1990s and was widely publicized because of its ability to resist the papaya ringspot virus. Although researchers from the Ming group had identified … [+4734 chars]
There's been discussion about which human-made objects can be "seen from space." If you have a good enough zoom lens, you can spot even fairly small things, like a SpaceX Crew Dragon on a Falcon 9 ro… [+1444 chars]
image: By bending sheet of cells, similar to the one that makes up our skin, the researchers noticed more precisely that the cells swelled to take the shape of small domes.view more Credit: Aurélie… [+4196 chars]
image: The eddy covariance system (left center) installed in Dajiuhu subalpine peatland in Shennongjia, central China's Hubei Province.view more Credit: Jiwen Ges team) Wetland ecosystems are the … [+2892 chars]
