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… [+14018 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]
Jupiter is famous for its massive, eye-catching storms. Now, citizens will be able to help scientists uncover the mysteries of the gigantic planet's storms. The project is hosted on Zooniverse and… [+2101 chars]
A Jurassic vampire squid-like creature used supersuckers to snatch prey out of the water column and lock it in place with a watertight seal, 3D imaging of several fossils reveals. For the first time… [+5008 chars]
On a spring evening in 2015, Geralyn Ritter sprinted through Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station to catch her New York-bound train. The next thing she knew, she was hooked up to a ventilator at Penn P… [+7878 chars]
Jupiter is famous for its massive, eye-catching storms. Now, citizens will be able to help scientists uncover the mysteries of the gigantic planet's storms. The project is hosted on Zooniverse and… [+2101 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]
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]
Astrophotographer Wright Dobbs took this image of five bright planets visible lined up with the moon from St. Cloud, Florida before dawn on June 24, 2022. The planets are (from left): Mercury, Venus,… [+3431 chars]
On a spring evening in 2015, Geralyn Ritter sprinted through Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station to catch her New York-bound train. The next thing she knew, she was hooked up to a ventilator at Penn P… [+7878 chars]
An incredible 12,000-mile tall twister of plasma has been captured erupting from the surface of the sun. The phenomenon is known as a solar tornado and was spotted by astrophotographer Apollo Lasky … [+4605 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]