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]
The world's largest fusion experiment, ITER, may be able to unleash more power than previously thought. That's because a team of scientists from the Swiss Plasma Center, one of the world's leading n… [+4273 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]
Tonga's January eruption created atmospheric reactions 'unprecedented in the modern geophysical record' A boat at sea had this view of the smoke rising from the eruption. The Tongan volcano has cre… [+5122 chars]
Enlarge/ The dark matter-poor galaxies are so diffuse that you can see right through them. 19 with 13 posters participating The Universe's first galaxies are thought to have formed at sites where a… [+4640 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]
Remains of a now-extinct ancient human species called Denisovans were found in southeast Asia for the first time. Scientists were seeking remains from Denisovans in the area because they knew that s… [+3307 chars]
Michigan State researchers have helped peer inside a nova -- a type of astrophysical nuclear explosion -- without leaving Earth.These stellar events help forge the universe's chemical elements, and S… [+7503 chars]
The first pictures ever taken of Sagittarius A, the so-called black hole lying 27,000 light years from Earth at the centre of the Milky Way, provide the lowest of low-hanging fruit for lazy comedians… [+1775 chars]
The first pictures ever taken of Sagittarius A, the so-called black hole lying 27,000 light years from Earth at the centre of the Milky Way, provide the lowest of low-hanging fruit for lazy comedians… [+1775 chars]
Plastic bottles, punnets, wraplightweight packaging made of PET plastic becomes a problem if it is not recycled. Scientists at Leipzig University have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that de… [+5178 chars]
For the past few days, we've all been fawning over the glorious new image of our Milky Way's black hole. But for a moment, we might want to pause and pay our respects to a lonely chasm across the uni… [+7168 chars]
