A ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid, which is twice the size of the Burj Khalifa and four times the Empire State Building will zip past Earth on Friday, according to NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Objec… [+1394 chars]
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO … [+5842 chars]
AstroForge is young and very ambitious. The California-based startup, which was founded in January 2022, came out of stealth mode today (May 26), announcing that it aims to become the first-ever via… [+5460 chars]
An area of volcanic deposits on the moon that scientists believe formed 33 million years ago. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) Volcanoes erupting on the moon billions of years ago … [+2461 chars]
NASA scientists have cut down a year of Perseverances audio recordings on the Martian surface to a five-hour playlist of the Red Planets best hits (you can listen to some here). The sounds are eerily… [+3025 chars]
A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics, black holes, and the still-elusive quantu… [+4981 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… [+5819 chars]
Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over the planet. But about three billion years ago, they all dried upand no one knows why. … [+5618 chars]
Researchers from the University of Delft have taken a small but important step toward the creation of a quantum internet, the next-generation network that will connect the most advanced computers eve… [+3240 chars]
Every lungful of air we suck down is mostly made up of nitrogen, with a generous helping of oxygen, and a dash of carbon dioxide. But dusting this atmospheric soup is a whole encyclopedia of differ… [+4271 chars]
About 460 light-years from Earth lies the small but lovely star cluster IC 2391. It only has about 250 stars in it, but one of them is special because its actually four stars, a quaternary system. As… [+5525 chars]
A lack of knowledge of how nickel crystallizes into a solid has hampered its prospective application in new nanomaterials and as a low-cost catalyst in chemical reactions that are performed in many i… [+5254 chars]
