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]
ByAustralian National UniversityJune 4, 2022 Animation showing an artists rendition of Mars interior structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Spac… [+5927 chars]
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Whales are not known to particularly prone to cancer while mice and humans are. This is a paradox if you think about it. Cancer, as we know, arises f… [+135 chars]
A long-running NASA rover imaged twisted Red Planet rock pillars. The Curiosity rover spotted (opens in new tab) the sinewy rocks on May 15, according to raw images the mission sends down to Earth. … [+2884 chars]
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]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar … [+5780 chars]
Scientists have discovered that an ultra-reactive chemical in Earth’s atmosphere lasts much longer than we previously believed. In fact, they believe that millions of tons of the chemical could linge… [+2534 chars]
A team of astronomers in Japan, for the first time, discovered a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy as a result of achieving high imaging dynamic range. Radio emission is emitted by the gas… [+2830 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]
To learn more, scientists turned off Avpr1a, a receptor in the brain that interacts with vasopressin.The rats were supposed to grow friendlier now that they were immune to the hormone. The consequen… [+860 chars]
NASA plans to acquire five additional crewed flights to the International Space Station from SpaceX as part of its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. NASA says the additio… [+1873 chars]
Older adults can benefit from higher levels of physical activity in many ways. Physical activity and exercise in older people can lower the risk of chronic disease, extend life expectancy, retain f… [+4750 chars]
