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]
While studying the reaction of male mice to pregnant and lactating female mice, researchers made a related and somewhat odd discovery: male mice are terrified of the smell of bananas. A team from Mc… [+3481 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]
A very strange meteorite found in western Egypt in 1996 may have tiny pieces of the debris from a supernova in it, and not just any supernova but one created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the re… [+5330 chars]
A distant “super-Earth” with a lava-covered surface that is constantly burning is about to be glimpsed by scientists for the first time. NASA says its James Webb Space Telescope is “just weeks away”… [+2572 chars]
Just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic really kicked off in early 2020, the world was fixated on a distant supergiant star, 700 light-years away known as Betelgeuse. The monstrous furnace sud… [+3942 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]
Skywatchers may be in for a huge treat tonight. The Tau Herculids meteor shower will be visible during the late-night hours of Monday, May 30 into the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 31st. While… [+1165 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]
An astrophotographer has captured a 286-megapixel image of the sun during the most intense period of solar activity in decades. The picture shows huge fireballs circling on the surface of the sun, a… [+7434 chars]
A very strange meteorite found in western Egypt in 1996 may have tiny pieces of the debris from a supernova in it, and not just any supernova but one created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the re… [+5330 chars]
Of all the little space robots scattered across the cosmos right now, Ingenuity, NASA's Mars helicopter, is probably my favorite. It has vastly exceeded its original mission goals and is now buzzing … [+1342 chars]
