NASA's Lucy probe has gained a ninth asteroid destination for its 12-year mission. Lucy launched in October 2021 and is bound for the Trojan asteroids, which, thanks to the pull of Jupiter's imm… [+2294 chars]
Summary: Using single-cell technology, researchers discover how the social division of labor in an ant colony reflects in the functional specialization of the ant brain at a cellular level. Source: … [+6921 chars]
New tectonic plate model with boundary zones in darker shading. Credit: Dr. Derrick Hasterok, University of Adelaide New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insigh… [+3770 chars]
A team of researchers using archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as other NASA observatories have observed a white … [+7425 chars]
A piece of space junk from a Russian anti-satellite weapons test forced the International Space Station to maneuver to avoid the orbital debris on Thursday (June 16). Russia's space agency Roscosmo… [+2389 chars]
A celestial workhorse and its dedicated team of astronomers are at it again by delivering a hypnotic new image of a globular cluster and its infinite depth of stars. But while a new image from the H… [+2317 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 19, 2022 Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand, and rock. Cred… [+9826 chars]
Updated 3:30 p.m. Eastern after Globalstar statement. WASHINGTON SpaceX completed a surge of three successful launches in a little more than 36 hours early June 19, days after an open letter within … [+6092 chars]
3D reconstruction of Psittacosaurus shows umbilical. Image credit: Jagged Fang Designs / via CUHK Thanks to an incredible fossil, paleontologists have confirmed that dinosaurs indeed had belly butto… [+2744 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope has had a long and sometimes painful journey from its earliest conception to its ultimate arrival at Lagrange point L2 and subsequent commissioning. Except for the butt… [+4813 chars]
In 2007, scientists at West Virginia University first identified an unusual intense burst of radio waves from space. Since then, these fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have been a mystery to astronomers. … [+3561 chars]
