Over the past few months, our solar system has offered us a number of visual treats. Earlier in June, we had a strawberry supermoon. And in April, four planets aligned Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn… [+6869 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]
China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission, said a media report. According t… [+1505 chars]
A type of bacteria that live in our mouths and guts send signals — in the form of lipids — through our blood, which could be good or bad, depending on the context. A multidisciplinary collaboration o… [+13259 chars]
MARS (KXAN) It took us a few decades, but we’ve finally done it. We have officially left our trash on another planet. Last week, NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover team tweeted a startling discovery: Th… [+1886 chars]
On August 27, 1883, a sound emerged from the Earth louder than anything recorded before or since. The volcanic eruption bellowed out from Krakatau, an uninhabited island between Java and Sumatra in … [+33056 chars]
Levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of scien… [+4579 chars]
A senior space official has confirmed China plans to bring rocks home from the surface of Mars by 2031, which could make it the first nation to deliver Martian samples to Earth. The timeline is two … [+3598 chars]
So far, science has dictated that when a star goes through a supernova, it disappears completely. However, that may not always be the case. Scientists have spotted a powerful star that managed to s… [+2755 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Huang Qing from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used infrared and Raman spectroscopy to identify lysine acetylatio… [+2570 chars]
The existence of "hot Jupiters" is one of the oldest mysteries of the exoplanet-hunting era, but a European spacecraft is revealing some clues about how these enigmatic worlds form. So-called hot J… [+1866 chars]
<li>Wang, J., Song, M., Chen, B., Wang, L. & Zhu, R. Effects of pH and H2O2 on ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate transformations during UV 254 nm irradiation: Implications to nitrogen removal and ana… [+9038 chars]
