(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]
ByUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillMay 25, 2022 The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. Cr… [+6990 chars]
image: New Duke University research shows that silicone wristbands can be used to track firefighters exposures to 134 dangerous chemicals, including PFAS.view more Credit: Durham, NC, Fire Departme… [+4777 chars]
image: First author 23-year old candidate Albert Sneppen.view more Credit: Ola J. Joensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen ASTROPHYSICS A team of University of Copenhagen astrophy… [+6159 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… [+6159 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]
"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]
NASA has provided a few tantalizing details describing its first crewed mission to Mars, which is expected to take place at some point in the 2030s. The U.S. space agency recently announced its top … [+2785 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]
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station provided an up-close view of Boeing's Starliner capsule in a recent video tour from orbit. Boeing's Starliner spacecraft arrived at the space sta… [+2658 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]
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]
