Unusual radio signals have been detected pulsing in the sky about 1,300 light-years away from Earth. According to a report in The Conversationa team of scientists has detected a strange flash, or “p… [+1965 chars]
This visualization shows the orbits for scores of newly identified asteroids as green arcs. (B612 Asteroid Institute / UW Dirac Institute / OpenSpace Project) Astronomers have used a cloud-based tec… [+5341 chars]
A year after completing the first powered and controlled flight on another world, NASAs Ingenuity helicopter is still setting records on Mars. The chopper recently hit a pair of new milestones: its … [+2049 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]
May 31 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The University of Western Australia’s gravitational-wave physicists have led the creation of a new laser mode sensor with unparalleled precision that will be used t… [+2886 chars]
We hear a lot about how climate change will change the land, sea, and ice. But how will it affect clouds? "Low clouds could dry up and shrink like the ice sheets," says Michael Pritchard, professor … [+9399 chars]
NASA Earth Observatory has been cataloging images of our planet since 1999, bringing us coverage of all the cool and weird geology Earth has to offer. The Observatory publishes images taken by differ… [+431 chars]
Solar sailing technology has been a dream of many for decades. The simple elegance of sailing on the light waves of the sun does have a dreamy aspect to it that has captured the imagination of engine… [+3444 chars]
According to Sandia researcher Jack Flicker, the mining and processing facilities could produce rocket fuel, water, oxygen and other materials needed for extended exploration of the lunar surface whi… [+3882 chars]
Observing complexitystability patterns in natural microbial communities without network reconstruction. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01745-8 Government coal… [+6338 chars]
A strange meteorite found in western Egypt in 1996 may contain small pieces of debris from the supernova in it and not just any supernova but created by the eruption of a white dwarf, a fossil of a s… [+3138 chars]
ByAnthony KingMay 31, 2022 An accreting SMBH in a fairly local galaxy with very large and extended radio jets. Credit: R. Timmerman; LOFAR & Hubble Space Telescope A deeper understanding of bla… [+8241 chars]