This week's Tau Herculid meteor shower could see thousands of "shooting stars"or none at all! getty Each Monday I pick out the northern hemispheres celestial highlights (mid-northern latitudes) fo… [+4127 chars]
Spaceships are cool, right? Now imagine spaceships the size of your smartphone travelling into the far-reaches of our solar system. Yep, scientists believe tiny spaceships could help humans travel e… [+2465 chars]
ByESA/HubbleMay 29, 2022 Spiral galaxy NGC 4603 containing Cepheids being used for distance measurements. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund The search for Cepheids The top-ranked scientific … [+4522 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed view of the large spiral galaxy NGC 3227 and its companion, an elliptical galaxy called NGC 3226, along with the faint tidal streams of gas and dust tha… [+2512 chars]
A group of Ediacaran specimens of Fractofusus and Plumeropriscum from the E surface, Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, Canada. Credit: Charlotte G. Kenchington (CC BY 4.0) Metacommuni… [+3155 chars]
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio quiet zones, making it the ideal home for many advanced telescopes t… [+5267 chars]
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio quiet zones, making it the ideal home for many advanced telescopes t… [+5267 chars]
London, May 29 (IANS): An international team of astronomers have detected the signal from the active supermassive black holes of dying galaxies in the early Universe. The appearance of these active … [+2176 chars]
For hundreds of millions of years, Earths 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 l… [+5352 chars]
Scientists from Hamburg and Munich developed the world's most powerful dual-comb spectrometer that paves the way for many applications in atmospheric science and biomedical diagnostics, such as early… [+1833 chars]
ByAdam Zewe, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMay 29, 2022 In a new study, MIT researchers demonstrate a machine-learning approach that can learn to control a fleet of autonomous vehicles as the… [+8198 chars]
Researchers say they have discovered a chemical found in sea corals that could be effective in treating cancer. Scientists had been searching for the compound for more than 25 years after early stud… [+4707 chars]
