Super Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. getty Thirty-three light years. Thats nothing. Sure, its going to be impossible to ever actually visit the two new planets discovered around the sta… [+3127 chars]
There are a million and one ways to die in space , whether its from micrometeoroid impacts shredding your ship or solar flares frying its electronics , drowning in your own sweat during a spacewa… [+14075 chars]
Once again, life has been found in an environment that would be deeply inhospitable to most organisms living on this planet. Fed by waters that pass through 600 meters (1,970 ft) of permafrost, the … [+4284 chars]
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): A new study describes how unique populations of craters on two of Saturn's moons could help indicate the satellites' age and the conditions of their formation. Using d… [+3713 chars]
Colloids are mixtures of microscopic particles suspended in fluidssubstances that are part solid, part liquid. Colloids are found in products including toothpaste, ketchup, paint and liquid hand soap… [+4830 chars]
The modern vampire squid is a cryptic creature. It lives a slow life deep in the ocean — far from shore — where it makes a living by scavenging on whatever dead things happen to sink past it on their… [+6606 chars]
The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates… [+5096 chars]
With a massive planet come massive storms. Such storms on Jupiter are the focus of a new citizen science project hosted on Zooniverse. Jovian Vortex Hunter (opens in new tab) launched Tuesday (June … [+2213 chars]
NGC 2392 is a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula. About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image… [+1316 chars]
A new analysis of a Martian meteorite is challenging current thinking about how terrestrial planets acquired volatile elements, including the elemental ingredients of life, early in their formation. … [+2718 chars]
Some of the most important discoveries in science have come from people asking obvious questions—things so obvious nobody before bothered to ask. Sir Issac Newton wondered why it was that apples and… [+3815 chars]
Shapiros Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low icein this case, around 120,000 or 125,000 years ago when, according to Shapiro,… [+3060 chars]
