An artist's depiction of superclusters in the universe. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library) Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of… [+5510 chars]
An international research team has now succeeded in detecting hydrotrioxides (ROOOH) for the first time under atmospheric conditions. Until now, there was only speculation that these organic compound… [+4249 chars]
Researchers have developed a low-cost gel film that can pull water from the air in even dry climates like the desert. More than a third of the worlds population lives in drylands, areas that experie… [+4203 chars]
Co-orbiting worlds, also known as Trojans, have not been found yet outside the solar system. That's a strange thing, a new study suggests, given we see them constantly closer to home. Our solar syst… [+2998 chars]
Estimated reading time 3 minutes, 35 seconds. Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before. The first frame of the vid… [+2458 chars]
While the idea of living on Mars may sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster, firms including NASA and SpaceX are seriously considering it as a possibility. Several challenges… [+13452 chars]
While the idea of living on Mars may sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster, firms including NASA and SpaceX are seriously considering it as a possibility. Several challenges… [+13452 chars]
May 30 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Just a few months after sustaining catastrophic hurricane damage, a primordial groundcover crucial to supporting a multitude of coastal lifeforms bounced back to li… [+3569 chars]
Supermassive black holes may have the power to quench star formation in their galaxies, according to a new study that detected numerous supermassive black holes from early on in our local universes l… [+4729 chars]
NASA discovered a bevy of headaches in its first three tries to run through a dress rehearsal countdown of the Artemis I moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center earlier this year. Now it's ready for atte… [+3755 chars]
Dark matter is a type of matter in the universe that does not absorb, reflect or emit light, which makes it impossible to directly detect. In recent years, astrophysicists and cosmologists worldwide … [+4144 chars]
Astronomers have uncovered the first solid evidence that merger events between black holes can deliver a "kick" powerful enough to send a black hole spinning out of its galaxy. The team, which inclu… [+6025 chars]
