(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweep… [+5657 chars]
Australian astronomers discovered the brightest pulsar ever seen outside the Milky Way by putting sunglasses on a telescope. The spinning stars: At the end of their lives, some massive stars collaps… [+2876 chars]
NASA: "Youve heard of sharknado, now get ready for sharkcano." Sharkcanos Revenge As if we needed anything else to worry about, a Pacific underwater volcano thats home to a bunch of sharks has erup… [+1684 chars]
Credit: Airbus Edinburgh / Friedrichshafen, 25 May 2022. – ESA has confirmed after a thorough review process that the preliminary design of the Airbus-built Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography … [+1056 chars]
A blast of new meteors may emerge during a tau Herculid meteor shower on May 30 and 31, but that's not a sure thing. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke termed the potential milestone an "all or nothing even… [+3819 chars]
NASA's spacesuits are getting old. The extra-vehicular mobility unitsEMUs for shortwere designed and built for spacewalks outside NASA's space shuttles, which flew for the last time in 2011. Nowadays… [+4557 chars]
The shore, lovely and deserted as it was, was marred by something Faye couldnt quite make out, at least not on the sand itself. But a quick scan of the water, and there she locked in bobbing in the b… [+5893 chars]
Newswise — May 25, 2022 - Spills and leaks of petroleum products wreak havoc on the environment. They can contaminate soils and pose significant threats to humans, animals, plants, and soil microbes.… [+4068 chars]
To build a fusion power plant, a plasma of more than 100 million degrees Celsius must be stored in a magnetic field and kept there for an extended period. Using measuring instruments developed indepe… [+2186 chars]
Yep they were flying too! If you were to magically be transported to Earth millions of years ago, half your time was likely to be (not) wasted in running away from dinosaurs that roamed the land. Thi… [+1738 chars]
The ISS is a research platform born from a foreign policy initiative to improve US-Russian relations Most people are used to not answering calls from unknown numbers but user EmpatheticApatheist on … [+1785 chars]
AI Reveals New Math Behind The Search For Exoplanets New planets orbiting other stars can be discovered using general relativity theory, which relies on connections buried in sophisticated mathemati… [+9154 chars]
