As Mars approaches its southern summer solstice, scientists and spacecraft are preparing for a new season of dust storms, mighty wind-driven clouds of dust that can cover thousands of square miles or… [+7139 chars]
An underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean has begun to erupt, NASA images show. Living there: Sharks that can withstand extreme temperatures. Off the coast of the Solomon Islands, about 950 miles n… [+2442 chars]
On April 8, SpaceX launched Axiom 1 (Ax-1), the first-ever all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Ax-1 ferried four passengers to the ISS, where they and their Drago… [+4178 chars]
The electric current in semiconductor materials can be conducted by electrons and positively charged holes or missing electrons. When light strikes a material, electrons can be excited to a higher en… [+3767 chars]
Long before they enter a classroom, people learn to identify commonplace objects like a "dog" and a "chair" just by encountering them in everyday life, with no intent to learn about what they are.A n… [+5068 chars]
Biological arms races are commonplace in nature. Cheetahs, for example, have evolved a sleek body form that lends itself to rapid running, enabling them to feast upon similarly speedy gazelles, the f… [+9410 chars]
Novel research led by psychologists from Durham University, UK and Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, along with the collaborative network of researchers around the world (under the consortium na… [+2740 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]
A microwave oven-sized satellite will fly in a peculiar orbit around the Moon this summer, as part of NASAs effort to make their Lunar Gateway project a reality. NASA is no stranger to lofting thi… [+3097 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]
Birds that hunt their prey during the night need special adaptations in order to allow them to see in low light conditions and to judge the distance to obstacles in their flight path as well as the d… [+6175 chars]
The very tiny motion of a small star has revealed the presence of a super-Earth exoplanet, orbiting at a distance that is close to habitable. Around a faint red dwarf called Ross 508, located just 3… [+4269 chars]
