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]
Scientists have spotted unusual radio waves about 1,300 light-years from Earth. This strange pulse is being emitted from a neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every … [+2506 chars]
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not only… [+5505 chars]
A recent study published in the journal PeerJhas found that plesiosaurs a group of saurians that lived about 210 million years ago in the late Triassic and became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous… [+3054 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]
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has shared a glimpse of gas giant Jupiter. American space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) never fails to amaze us with their updates. Now… [+1696 chars]
An artist’s rendering of the early solar system, featuring the proto-Sun, newly forming planets, and circumstellar disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) Billions of years ago, when the Sun wa… [+3203 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]
Spacecraft studying Earth's magnetosphere collectively observed how solar particles reach the upper atmosphere and create glowing auroral beads in the night sky. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab) A c… [+3866 chars]
IF you are one of the estimated 10million hay fever sufferers in Britain, you might want to look away now. One of the main causes of this condition is grass pollen, and the plants are in full bloom (… [+3649 chars]
