A composite image of the R Aquarii binary star captured by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA. (Image credit: NASA) NASA's flying telescope SOFIA has been watching a dance between two stars orbiting each… [+3608 chars]
A strange radio-emitting neutron star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Experts have noted that the discovery of the star could help understand these unique star systems. S… [+2273 chars]
Last week, we witnessed the largest asteroid of the year 2022 make its way very near Earth and then fly past. The Earth is approached by an asteroid almost every other week. In fact, there are around… [+3221 chars]
Skoltech researchers are forecasting that by 204060, Sosnowsky's hogweed will likely exploit global warming to expand its habitat, threatening to infest almost the entire European part of Russia. Pub… [+3553 chars]
A treasure trove of data is set to answer some big questions about our galaxy. The data, compiled by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, contains an unprecedented amount of information about … [+10933 chars]
On the list of scientific tools that help us understand health, evolution or the environment, the Trinidadian guppy doesn't often come to mind.The fish are more often thought of as aquarium pets in t… [+3670 chars]
A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape. Lignin also stores tremendous potential for renewable energy and materials.Re… [+5659 chars]
Introduction In the last decade, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely explored as tools with applications in the medical field. Several studies performed by our group and other researchers ha… [+51449 chars]
In order to solidify humanity's long-term presence on Mars, humans would have to fuse with robots, an astronomer thinks. Lord Martin Rees, a British cosmologist, and the fifteenth Astronomer Royal re… [+2108 chars]
The Sun is a great starting point for modeling the many physical processes in stellar interiors. However, the results of helioseismology, which provide information on the nature of the Sun’s interior… [+3088 chars]
Burn markings discovered on old shell scraps some years ago revealed that the early Australians cooked and ate huge eggs laid by a long-extinct bird, igniting a vigorous debate about the species that… [+3172 chars]
COLUMBIA, Md., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern astronomy relies on understanding the life cycle of molecular material, and though astronomers understand much of the process, there are a lot of mi… [+5758 chars]
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