An enormous asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building is headed toward Earth — and you can watch live as it whooshes harmlessly through the night sky. The asteroid, dubbed 7335 (19… [+2825 chars]
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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]
Stars tend to form in clusters or groups of between ten and several thousand stars that share the same age and composition, although in different evolutionary phases. Among the clusters in the Milky … [+5063 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]
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]
NASA has updated the launch period for its Psyche asteroid mission, from August 2022 to September 2022, citing an issue preventing confirmation that the software controlling the spacecraft is functio… [+1735 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]
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]
A research team at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with their collaborators, has recently synthesized a new isotope thorium-207, and discovere… [+2310 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]
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]
