A Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse will occur tonight (May 15) and may be a mesmerizing spectacle for Earth-bound viewers, but for the spacecraft on the moon, it's more of a hindrance. That's b… [+4714 chars]
Welcome back to our ongoing "Interplanetary Series." In our previous installments, we looked at what it would take to live on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the Main Asteroid Belt, and Jupiter's lar… [+25755 chars]
An asteroid larger than New York’s Empire State Building is approaching Earth. Photo: Getty Images. <ul><li>NASA claims that an asteroid larger than New York’s Empire State Building will pass ‘close… [+1298 chars]
In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
Scientists might have just found the "fifth force" working in space. According to them, this force might be mediated by a hypothetical particle called "symmetron" or also known as "domain walls", whi… [+3212 chars]
A total lunar eclipse occurs overnight from Sunday to Monday. The moon will begin to enter Earth’s shadow at 4:27 a.m., and the peak phase is expected at 5:28 a.m., but the climax of the eclipse will… [+2285 chars]
Early in the morning on Monday, May 16, almost parallel to the full moon, a total lunar eclipse will occur, which in Greece will be partially visible. A total eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and… [+1044 chars]
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
When NASA sends Artemis astronauts back to the surface of the moon in coming years, they should be able to grow their own salad. That's just one ramification of a historic experiment in which scienti… [+2264 chars]
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the delightfully named Little Sombrero galaxy, called that for its long thin shape with a bulge in the middle which is reminiscent of the shape… [+2087 chars]
ByRoger Jones, Lancaster UniversityMay 15, 2022 A recent series of precise measurements of already known, standard particles and processes have threatened to shake up physics. As a physicist workin… [+6733 chars]
Nukualofa: The Tongan Volcano’s eruption that occurred in January this year has been declared as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the earth’s atmosphere, media reports said on Sunday. This expl… [+1456 chars]
