Jupiter's innards are full of the remains of baby planets that the gas giant gobbled up as it expanded to become the behemoth we see today, scientists have found. The findings come from the first cle… [+7220 chars]
A planetary system with two Earthlike planets has been discovered only 33 light-years away from us. This exciting solar system is one of the nearest to Earth and was spotted by NASA's Transiting … [+2818 chars]
Next time you look at a bright full moon, think about this: No one knows, precisely, where the moon came from. “We have no idea why the moon is here,” says science writer Rebecca Boyle. unexplainab… [+9701 chars]
Top Left:A giant blue star, much more massive than our Sun, has consumed, through nuclear fusion at its center, all its hydrogen, helium, and heavier elements up to iron. It now has a small iron core… [+6414 chars]
NASA will arrange for the launch of Lunar Pathfinder through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme and gain access to communications services from the spacecraft. NASA Administrator Bill … [+3207 chars]
Enlarge/ Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand, and rock. 19 with 16 posters participating Astronomers have produced th… [+4578 chars]
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) offer a wide range of applications in self-powered sensory systems. In a paper published in the journal Nano Energy, a liquid-solid TENG, driven by waves, was cre… [+5344 chars]
When players try to solve word games, they attempt to put together clues to find the solution. Sure, it helps to have a strong vocabulary, but finding the right answers to those puzzles is as much ab… [+3309 chars]
Skip to main content Amphibians are exceptionally good at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast on microscopic insects, and … [+5659 chars]
Studying two highly divergent phyla of worms that contain numerous parasites that cause human and livestock diseases, the research group of Qi Zhou from the University of Vienna and Zhejiang Universi… [+3292 chars]
Centenary campaign benefits from network launched last month University of Witwatersrand alumni living in Australia have donated R80 million ($4.9m) towards the South African institution’s centenary… [+407 chars]
While examining a stellar nursery, astronomers found something peculiar: a binary star system that may have formed when a wandering star fell into the gravity of its partner. The stellar nursery L48… [+2092 chars]
