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]
In a first, scientists have discovered a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy with an energetic black hole at its centre. The discovery, made by using high contrast imaging, was made by a t… [+1852 chars]
ByAnne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 4, 2022 MIT chemists have designed a new type of photoredox catalyst that could make it easier to incorporate light-driven reactions into co… [+7352 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
A passion for the natural world drives many of our adventures. And when were not actually outside, we love delving into the discoveries about the places where we live and travel. Here are some of the… [+4832 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]
