The sounds of sloshing lava are music to a volcanologist's ears. The reverberating belches and burps can help reveal what's going on deep within a volcano's belly. Putting an ear to the Klauea volca… [+3606 chars]
Astronauts have been venturing into space for 61 years to unlock the human potential for exploration. But the floating freedom offered by a lack of gravity also presents a number of limits when it c… [+7260 chars]
At long last: the crystal structure of three layers of -graphyne. (Courtesy: Yiming Hu) Two new processes for producing different types of graphyne a 2D allotrope of carbon that includes triple bond… [+6674 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
ByMartin Greenwald, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion CenterJune 4, 2022 Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles … [+9356 chars]
Jump to navigationMetal-rich near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, are rare, but their presence provides the intriguing possibility that iron, nickel and cobalt could someday be mined for use on Earth or in… [+4248 chars]
It is not a secret that Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbor and is the second planet from the Sun. But have you ever wondered what this planet looks like up close? First Close-Up Photo of Ve… [+3850 chars]
ByNancy Neal Jones, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterJune 4, 2022 NASAs DAVINCI mission will study the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in unprecedented detail from near the top of the … [+9985 chars]
This guest post was written by Elena Asencio, a first year PhD student at the University of Bonn. Elena works on testing and comparing different cosmological models at galaxy and galaxy cluster scale… [+6171 chars]
This guest post was written by Elena Asencio, a first year PhD student at the University of Bonn. Elena works on testing and comparing different cosmological models at galaxy and galaxy cluster scale… [+6171 chars]
Just a week after a giant asteroid, much bigger than the tallest building in the World, Burj-Khalifa, passed near Earth, there is another one that will make a close pass soon. According to NASA, a gi… [+1669 chars]
NASA has announced the date when the first full-color images from the new James Webb Space Telescope will be released. Along with ESA (European Space Agency), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the… [+2360 chars]