The May 2022 Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse shines with the aurora above the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica on May 15, 2022 in this photo by astronomer Aman Chokshi. (Image credit: Aman Ch… [+2802 chars]
HELSINKI China is looking to land spacecraft near permanently shadowed regions near the south pole of the moon to investigate the potential presence of resources trapped in craters. Researchers from… [+4226 chars]
The space rock sporting the catchy moniker "asteroid 7335 (1989 JA)" will be visible with conventional telescopes on Friday from 13h00 GMT at a safe distance of 4 million kilometres. The asteroid, w… [+1489 chars]
May 27 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, some of the world’s most powerful particle accelerators have helped scientists gather new leading … [+3057 chars]
A Monash University student team is once again competing against the world’s best to build next-generation interplanetary rovers that could one day accompany human explorers to Mars. After a two-ye… [+3188 chars]
Albatross mating has taken some heat from global warming, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Researchers studying black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche me… [+4951 chars]
Tim Dodd from the YouTube account Everyday Astronaut has uploaded a continuation of his tour around Starbase with Elon Musk. Musk accompanied Dodd on a tour throughout SpaceX's launch site in South … [+1321 chars]
Could the Earth's core be rusting? Scientists are now suggesting that there are major changes happening to Earth's physiology that we may not be able to see immediately. Earth's core is made up of mo… [+2606 chars]
Perhaps the hardest part of sending people into space is actually getting to space in the first place. Any rocket capable of escaping Earths atmosphere needs to burn most of its fuel within the fir… [+9485 chars]
Writing in the journal Materials, a team of scientists from China has reported the use of neural networks for modeling hyperelastic material structures to identify material parameters. The authors ha… [+6194 chars]
DNA "fingerprints" left behind by sea turtles offer scientists a simple, powerful way of tracking the health and whereabouts of these endangered animals, a key step forward in their conservation. A … [+6908 chars]
Newswise — Tsukuba, Japan—Many people may not realize that the humble sea urchin is a titan when it comes to the study of biology. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that sea urchins could h… [+2431 chars]