A "potentially hazardous" asteroid called (7335) 1989 JA will become the closest large asteroid to ... [+] Earth in all of 2022 when it whizzes safely past on May 27. getty The largest asteroid to… [+2071 chars]
The United Nations Postal Administration recently issued six new stamps and three souvenir sheets in celebration of human achievements on Mars. Earths planetary neighbour has got quite a hold on us.… [+5197 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar spa… [+5935 chars]
Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles numerical simulation. Credit: Muni Zhou et al When we look out into s… [+8002 chars]
The Swarm satellites measure Earth's core using sensors from orbit. (ESA) Volcanic eruptions remind us that the inside of our planet isnt exactly tranquil, but theres plenty of completely unknown st… [+3804 chars]
The tiny floating organisms that supply our world with as much as a fifth of its oxygen will be in dire straights as our oceans acidify, new research suggests. The creatures, called diatoms, will be… [+4199 chars]
Dr. Edwin L. Thomas, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a team of researchers from Texas A&M University and Yonsei University recently discovered a helicoidal-shape… [+4390 chars]
Creating new chemical compounds, such as new drugs, is not as simple as assembling one of those models with colored balls and sticks you might have seen in a beginning chemistry class. No, it’s often… [+4068 chars]
Tree hyraxes are medium-sized mammals living in the canopies of tropical forests. They are shy and only move at night, which is why next to nothing has been known about their living habits or behavio… [+2398 chars]
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has shared a remarkable image (below) that highlights the true scale of SpaceXs workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. The photo shows a Falcon 9 booster shortly after it landed at Cape Ca… [+2065 chars]
The new Fellows of 2022. An Indigenous health champion and a pioneering astrophysicist are among 22 Australians recognised for their outstanding contributions to science by being elected Fellows of … [+5354 chars]
Earth's interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through the hot magmatic fl… [+3598 chars]
