Dark matter doesnt really do much of anything in the present-day universe. But in the early days of the cosmos there may have been pockets of dark matter with high enough density that they provided a… [+3375 chars]
Article content And they could use some volunteer help from the community to supplement their efforts. They are a bit behind because of COVID, when they couldnt work on it, so they are looking for … [+1784 chars]
Get your telescopes out because this month will see our skies full of everything from a supermoon to the summer solstice. Here is everything you can see in the sky in June 2022. The moon A supermo… [+1754 chars]
A spacecraft has spied a spiky hedgehog on the sun and watched a solar flare in ways never done before. The Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, launched in Feb… [+1992 chars]
Some supernatural entities, beyond the barriers of our galaxy, are nudging against us with tremendous force. We don’t know precisely what it is, and we don’t know how long it’s been there. However, w… [+1429 chars]
Dark matter doesnt really do much of anything in the present-day universe. But in the early days of the cosmos there may have been pockets of dark matter with high enough density that they provided a… [+3375 chars]
ByXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityJune 1, 2022 Researchers discovered that supplementing a diet with the sea organisms Ascidiacea, also known as sea squirts, reverses some of the main signs of ag… [+8178 chars]
In between Earth's rigid tectonic plates above and its convecting mantle below is a hot and soft layer known as the asthenosphere. At mid-ocean ridges, upwelling of the hot asthenosphere to the surfa… [+2982 chars]
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While sky watchers who stayed up or woke up to catch the Tau Hercules meteors werent treated to a meteor storm, the shooting stars did come out. And if casual viewers were disappointed not to see 1,0… [+3687 chars]
ByWillow Reed, University of Colorado BoulderJune 1, 2022 NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is the first Mars orbiter specifically designed to study the planets upper a… [+8600 chars]
Could Earth microbes become even more deadly in space? (Getty) A new study has shown that in situations imitating microgravity, as found in environments such as the International Space Station, micr… [+4411 chars]