The challenges of interstellar travel are immense. However, one scientist has proposed an easier (albeit very slow) way to move between stars: let free-floating planets carry us. If she's right, it c… [+3841 chars]
The ostrich is genetically wired to adapt to rising or falling temperatures. However, when the temperature fluctuates more often, as it does with climate change, the flightless bird with a 40-gram br… [+2797 chars]
Illustration of Gateway in lunar orbit with contributions from international partners. Credit: NASA Edinburgh, 30 May 2022. – U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida annou… [+1164 chars]
Jupiter is the largest and most massive planet in the solar system. Jupiter is eleven Earths across with a diameter of 88,846 miles (142,983 kilometers). By volume, Jupiter reveals itself as the true… [+24231 chars]
Kepler-452b (sometimes nicknamed Earth 2.0 or Earth's Cousin) is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like ... [+] star Kepler-452 about 1, 400 light-years (430 pc) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. I… [+6833 chars]
BySciTechDailyMay 30, 2022 Artists concept of a sun-like star (left) and a rocky planet about 60% larger than Earth in orbit in the stars habitable zone. Gravitational microlensing has the ability t… [+12969 chars]
The Klauea volcano in Hawaii is said to be the world's most active volcano, and yet we still don't really know how it was born. New research suggests the original womb of magma lies more than 90 kil… [+3308 chars]
An artist's rendering of the gas bubbles being blown in NASA's Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) (opens in new tab)While it might be a comfortabl… [+3179 chars]
<li>Costa, A., Caricchi, L. & Bagdassarov, N. S. A model for the rheology of particle-bearing suspensions and partially molten rocks. Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems10, 113 (2009). Article G… [+13639 chars]
arc: A curve, often mapping out what appears to be part of a circle. astronomer: A scientist who works in the field of research that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. B… [+2525 chars]
Fifty years after it was launched to Venus by the Soviets, a probe could crash on Earth after failing to get out of the planet's orbit. The probe dubbed Kosmos 482, renamed after it failed post-launc… [+3668 chars]
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