Scientists have spent the past two years explaining the weird sulfur chemistry seen in the clouds of Venus. They have been studying whether there’s a way to make life a potential explanation for what… [+4169 chars]
IceCube is an example of how big science, and particularly particle physics, now often works on generational time scales. Getting from the idea of IceCube to actually drilling its neutrino sensors in… [+3064 chars]
agriculture: The growth of plants, animals or fungi for human needs, including food, fuel, chemicals and medicine. alien: A non-native organism. (in astronomy) Life on or from a distant world. Apol… [+6172 chars]
Here's your friendly reminder that our solar system is but a molecule of water in the universe's ocean. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, better known as TESS, has spotted a buzzing ga… [+4923 chars]
A grand celestial reunion is due in Earths skies throughout June. Sky-watchers will get a rare chance to see all the major planets in our solar system bunched togetherwith the moon joining the festiv… [+4287 chars]
Christopher Onken/Australian National University An international team of researchers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past nine billion years. The supermassive b… [+3003 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]
Enabling & Support16/06/2022716 views11 likes ESAs new medium-lift Vega-C rocket is nearly ready for its inaugural flight, with its four fully-stacked stages now ready for payload integration, f… [+3685 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 16, 2022 MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it … [+8044 chars]
Are you a morning person? I have always functioned better in the early hours even despite the fact I also spend at least an hour awake every night at about 1:00 a.m. worrying (often about the fact … [+5704 chars]
For the first time, the SupraBioNano Lab (SBNLab) at the Politecnico di Milano’s Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta,” in collaboration with the University of B… [+2953 chars]
While staring at a multi-colored image of four overlapping clouds in the constellation Cygnus, a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, Astronomy Professor Dan Clemens thought he saw a… [+3485 chars]
