Just like a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes and a murmuration of starlings, tightly packed stars of a similar age within the center of a galaxy have a collective name: a bulge. Most galaxies h… [+4856 chars]
In anticipation of Boeings first crewed test flight of Starliner, NASA has chosen two astronauts to fly on board the troubled spacecraft, in a mission that could launch later this year. On Friday, … [+2420 chars]
With the potential to raise global sea levels, Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier has been widely nicknamed the 'Doomsday Glacier.' Now, a study has revealed just how quickly the enormous glacier is melt… [+6880 chars]
As many as 40 scientific proposals have been accepted from research teams across the world as everyone queues up to get a piece of asteroid that hides ingredients for life. The selected proposals are… [+1359 chars]
An eclipse time of J004505 from the DIRECT database. The upper panel shows the time series and the lower panel shows the orbital phased light curve (which was reconstructed) with the fitted parabola … [+4572 chars]
A comet visiting the sun has disintegrated in front of astronomers' eyes in a series of unprecedented observations that may help explain why comets orbiting close to the sun seem to disappear. The … [+2859 chars]
The beginning of Life is a mystery to all. Throughout the years, we have done our best to learn about the earliest stages of Life, but no amount of hard work has revealed the actual situation that us… [+1991 chars]
Nanofluidics enables the detection of compounds at the smallest concentration. It studies the behavior and manipulation of fluids confined in structures of 1-1000 nm scale. Scientists revealed that t… [+7362 chars]
Would-be parents hoping to get pregnant face a ticking clock: The older potential mothers get, the more their fertility drops. A new study in mice may help explain why. Ovaries accumulate “stiff” tis… [+5081 chars]
An international research team has recently developed a new proton capture reaction rate of copper-57 for the extreme astrophysical environment at the surface of neutron stars. The researchers found … [+2877 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Qian Shengbang and Ph.D. student Li Fuxing from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that the formation and evolution of the massive bina… [+4167 chars]
After more than 44 years of travelling farther from Earth than any man-made objects have before, the Voyager spacecraft are entering their very final phase. Both of the Voyagers were launched from C… [+7212 chars]
