Every 11 years, the number of spots dotting the surface of the Sun increases and decreases like clockwork. Astronomers have been tracking the 11-year sunspot cycle for more than 400 years, using it t… [+7576 chars]
Get the most fascinating science news stories of the week in your inbox every Friday. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences The outer skin of our planetthe critical zonestretches … [+2052 chars]
image: Schematic illustration of the moiré pattern evolution under the influences of external forces and torques for a circularly shaped colloidal cluster interacting with a periodically structured s… [+8396 chars]
The oldest 'belly button' known to science has been found on an exquisitely preserved horned dinosaur fossil from China. The slit-like scar comes not from an umbilical cord, as it does in mammals, b… [+3438 chars]
NASA recently shared an image of a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion light-years from Earth. Known as Abell 2146, it is the result of a collision and merger between two gala… [+2057 chars]
After a quiet spell, we are going to witness the largest asteroid flyby of the month of June. According to NASA, a 270-feet wide asteroid will be making its closest approach to the Earth tomorrow, Ju… [+2275 chars]
Space industryThe FTs Peggy Hollinger and Clive Cookson talk to the European Space Agencys Samantha Cristoforetti about life on the International Space Station, the fallout from the Russian war on ea… [+80 chars]
Jun 10 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Due to their distinctive characteristics of high peak power, short pulse length, and broad spectral coverage, ultrafast laser technologies provide novel options for… [+2913 chars]
A new member of a category of star so rare we can count the known number of them on our fingers and toes has just been discovered in the Milky Way. It's called MAXI J1816-195, located no greater tha… [+4360 chars]
Who doesn't want to know every nook and cranny of the Moon? Singular Focus There's now a map of the Moon's surface more detailed than any that came before it. Published in the journal Science Bull… [+1532 chars]
Saturns rings cast shadows on the planets cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the ... [+] brilliant sphere of Saturns moon Enceladus. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini sp… [+6357 chars]
In an article recently published in the journal Applied Surface Science, the researchers synthesized green fluorescent carbon dots (G-CDs) from 3,5-diaminobenzoic acid and citric acid. The as-prepare… [+6107 chars]
