During a high-level talk on NASAs objectives for human space exploration, we got an early glimpse of what a 30 day crewed mission to the surface of Mars could eventually look like. Its an exciting p… [+3000 chars]
Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed.In a new study, the physicists studied discrete aurora, a light-in-the-sky display that occurs mostly duri… [+2221 chars]
ByFlinders UniversityMay 18, 2022 A close-up of the tooth from a birds-eye viewpoint. Credit: Fabrice Demeter (University of Copenhagen/CNRS Paris) Denisovans, a sister species of modern humans, in… [+5728 chars]
Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions broke loose on the moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands of square miles of the orb's surface in hot lava. Over the eons, that lava created the … [+4835 chars]
Solar panels are a popular form of harvesting clean energy, but they arent without their limitations. They work best in bright, direct sunlight, so overcast and rainy days can limit energy efficiency… [+2534 chars]
A total lunar eclipse wowed viewers around the world this week and in one timelapse video, it can be seen dramatically cutting the light of the night sky to such a degree that the Milky Way suddenly … [+3115 chars]
With the December 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, one of the most expensive and ambitious scientific initiatives ever attempted commenced operations. Now that the telescope has been su… [+50865 chars]
Robots have traditionally been purpose-built to perform a single, very specific task, but researchers from Beihang University are taking a much different approach with a new robotic drone that can op… [+6569 chars]
Many age-related diseases share a common feature: the mitochondria of cells begin to malfunction. While the cause is not known, Buck Institute scientists have discovered a new mechanism of how mitoch… [+4583 chars]
Ants may be the unlikely heroes when it comes to better understanding the health of our planet in the midst of a climate crisis. In a paper published to Frontiers in Remote Sensing, a team of scienti… [+3863 chars]
NASA: The month of May has been relatively quiet so far in terms of asteroids coming close to our planet. While there have been a few small space rocks flying past the planet at a considerable distan… [+2392 chars]
Michigan State researchers have helped peer inside a novaa type of astrophysical nuclear explosionwithout leaving Earth. These stellar events help forge the universe's chemical elements, and Spartan… [+7606 chars]
