Using the AstroSat spacecraft, Indian astronomers have inspected a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 5053. Results of the study, presented in a paper published May 27 on the arXiv pre-print repo… [+3298 chars]
Image source: "Secrets of the Cell," via Discovery Institute. Respect for bacteria is growing. Biochemist Michael Behes latest video in the Secrets of the Cell series shows how magnetotactic bacteri… [+6181 chars]
We think these gust-liftings are infrequent but could be responsible for a large fraction of the background dust that hovers all the time in the Martian atmosphere, Newman said. Why Is Jezero Differ… [+3099 chars]
The human body is composed of over forty trillion cells. Each of these cells has totally two meters of tightly packaged genomic DNA, the blueprint of life. Recently, there have been many advances in … [+2017 chars]
A team of scientists at the Georgia State University (GSU) were left speechless after an experiment involving gene-editing on hamsters turned them into hyper aggressive little demons. To conduct res… [+2070 chars]
We’re about to reach a milestone that many thought we would never reach. After years of wrangling, cost overruns, threats of cancellation, and lobbying by the science community, the James Webb Space … [+4375 chars]
If we have learnt anything from the various space exploration missions conducted by NASA, its that the universe can be extremely strange. Bizarre even. We have discovered exoplanets (planets that orb… [+2522 chars]
Boeing's Starliner (left) during Orbital Flight Test 2 as it approaches the International Space Station, as seen in an image taken from London on May 20, 2022. (Image credit: Szabolcs Nagy/Space Stat… [+4243 chars]
Weve been keeping close track of Ingeniuitys progress here at Universe Today. Following the little helicopter that could hasnt always been easy – with almost 30 flights logged covering over 7 kilomet… [+2464 chars]
Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 a… [+4349 chars]
If we have learnt anything from the various space exploration missions conducted by NASA, its that the universe can be extremely strange. Bizarre even. We have discovered exoplanets (planets that orb… [+2522 chars]
A DISTANT galaxy with a black hole at its center has spit out radio emissions picked up by an astronomy team in Japan. Challenges with telescoping technologies make this discovery unique. Studying … [+1882 chars]
