image: Vincent Chevrierview more Credit: Russell Cothren Associate professor Vincent Chevrier at the U of A Center for Space and Planetary Sciences was awarded $100,000 to study the stability and … [+2484 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the spiral galaxy NGC 7496 24 million light-years from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) Birds of a feather may flock together here on Earth, but our avian friends … [+2269 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]
A roundup of this weeks Funding Insight articles This week, we learn about non-disclosure agreements in research partnerships, and the dangers of considering them ‘just a formality’ and signing with… [+277 chars]
When we see pictures of galaxies outside the Milky Way, what we're usually looking at is primarily the light of their stars. But stars are far from the only ingredient that makes up a galaxy. Think o… [+4386 chars]
Welcome to the summer American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Pasadena, CA, and online! Astrobites is attending the conference as usual, and we will report highlights from each day here. If yo… [+30801 chars]
Researchers have discovered the existence of a real-world hidden under the ice of Antarctica.Researchers working on the direct consequences of climate change have visited the Ross Sea in Antarctica. … [+2115 chars]
Global sterodynamic sea-level change from Altimetry observations The sterodynamic sea-level change that equates to a sum of barystatic and thermosteric sea-level change40 can be directly estimated b… [+14542 chars]
Artificial intelligence has changed the way science is done by allowing researchers to analyze the massive amounts of data modern scientific instruments generate. It can find a needle in a million ha… [+6812 chars]
A scientist from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba developed a method for producing electrically conductive polymers that assume a helical configuration. By using … [+2671 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]
It has not been long since space agencies from different countries are launching asteroid exploration missions. In the recent past, NASA launched a mission in 2016 to an asteroid that will bring samp… [+2067 chars]
