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… [+3044 chars]
Riding through Canadian polar bear country in a Tundra Buggyessentially a monster truck that keeps riders safely distanced from wildlifea BYU engineering capstone team scoured the landscape with shar… [+5149 chars]
Long the dream of many science fiction fans, if Elon Musk and SpaceX get their way, members of our species will indeed live on Mars within the next few decades. But, unlike in science fiction films a… [+16304 chars]
From left to right: Eric Laliberté, Director General Space Utilization at the Canadian Space Agency, Adina Gillespie, Director of Business Development, Europe at GHGSat Inc and Simonetta Cheli, Direc… [+1316 chars]
The European Southern Observatory (ESO), which unveiled the first image of the Milky Way galaxys supermassive black hole earlier this month, has shared a new picture. This time, it shared the image o… [+1809 chars]
After the roaring success of SpaceX in launching private space missions, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin might have its big moment when it lands a futuristic radio telescope on the side of the Moon, probably… [+3366 chars]
Are shards of planet Mercury hiding on Earth? Scientists think that Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun was once a much larger cosmic body, until it collided with another space object and got ripp… [+3229 chars]
The Galactic RainCloudS project, an initiative led by members of the Faculty of Physics, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) of the University of Barcelona and the Institute for Space Studies of… [+4923 chars]
A world-class astronomical observatory is under construction in the town of Lenghu, northwest China's Qinghai Province. It has an average elevation of 3,800 meters. The site was chosen for the platea… [+207 chars]
NASA has taken to its blog to hone in on an elliptical galaxy and a surrounding unusual star-forming dwarf galaxy. The space agency explains that the elliptical galaxy is called NGC 541, and the irr… [+925 chars]
"And I realized at one point that all the bad guys were Russians." Movie Night Things have been a little more tense than usual on board the International Space Station lately, given the geopolitica… [+1928 chars]
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Chile's ALMA seeks to double capacity in a decade after a slow re-opening Now that Chile's ALMA Observatory is running at full force after the… [+3711 chars]
