South Korea has for now called off its plan to visit Apophis, an asteroid that is expected to come close to Earth in 2029. The mission was likely canceled on the grounds of the agency's lack of techn… [+2536 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]
SpaceX has transported the most powerful rocket booster ever assembled to its Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) and used giant robotic arms to install it. It’s not the first such trip for Starship’… [+4548 chars]
New research suggests that Jupiter contains the remnants of numerous planetoids that it consumed as it grew in the early solar system. Jupiter is the largest and most massive planet in our solar sys… [+4093 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]
Within and upon every human being reside countless microorganismsthe microbiota that help shape and direct the lives of their hosts. A similar phenomenon occurs between people, microbes and the homes… [+6271 chars]
A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did the ice sheets that rang in the last ice age more than 100,0… [+5968 chars]
Scientists are a abuzz with anticipation for the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest and most powerful infrared space-based telescope, which will be revealed in J… [+9313 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]
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]
ByIowa State UniversityJune 24, 2022 Scientists have announced the experimental discovery of a tetraneutron, a new and exotic state of matter that could also have properties that are useful in exist… [+8886 chars]
Southwest Research Institute scientists assembled data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory tests and exospheric modeling to disclose the likely configuration of the red cap on Plut… [+1575 chars]
