"Shooting stars" from the tau Herculids meteor shower may be visible late this month, but you might want to listen for them instead. Excitement among meteor enthusiasts is building as we get closer … [+6742 chars]
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope features the Grand Design Spiral, NGC 3631, located some 53 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major. The "arms" of gran… [+1190 chars]
A mile-wide asteroid passed by Earth on Friday (May 27) at a distance about 10 times that of the space between the Earth and moon. The asteroid, known as asteroid 7335 (1989 JA), is roughly four tim… [+2070 chars]
Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as part of the ExoMars mission, a collaboration between Europe and Russia. The landin… [+5823 chars]
Scientists have detected a completely new type of magnetic wave that surges through Earth 's outer core every seven years, warping the strength of our planet's magnetic field in the process. The wa… [+3749 chars]
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Satellite images from NASA have captured the underwater eruption of the Kavachi Volcano in the Pacific Ocean's Solomon Islands. One of the most active submarine volcanoes in the ocean, scientists fo… [+1810 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]
During heavy storms, the normally stratified layers of water in ocean fjords get mixed, which leads to oxygenation of the fjord floor. But these storm events also result in a spike in methane emissio… [+4722 chars]
A huge asteroid more than a mile wide will zoom safely by Earth today and you can watch it live today in a free online webcast. The asteroid, known as asteroid 7335 (1989 JA), is four times the siz… [+2722 chars]
Temperature pattern and physical appearance of reduced briquette As previously reported, iron nuggets were formed by reducing TTM/coal composite pellets under an isothermal-temperature gradient prof… [+15361 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]
