An international team of scientists found that sociality is not linked to intestinal nematode infection in Asian elephants. The researchers looked at loneliness and characteristics of the elephants' … [+5397 chars]
G2V Optics has sent solar simulators to NASA to help test a spacecraft that aims to solve Earth's growing space-junk problem. It's the latest success in the Edmonton-based company's evolution toward … [+2877 chars]
(Kitco News) As minerals on Earth deplete, there is a race between the United States and China to mine resources in outer space. Chinese media have even warned that the U.S. wants to set up a "space-… [+2504 chars]
A stream of supercharged particles from the sun recently crashed into Earth with no prior warning. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)Scientists were recently left scratching their heads… [+3682 chars]
High-energy neutrinos are highly fascinating subatomic particles produced when very fast charged particles collide with other particles or photons. IceCube, a renowned neutrino detector located at th… [+5300 chars]
ByEuropean Space Agency (ESA)June 28, 2022 The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on June 23, 2022, as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of si… [+6442 chars]
Proprietary space-grade cameras are expensive, limited, and a pain to develop. Smallsat manufacturer NanoAvionics recently sidestepped any development issues and opted for something off the shelf ins… [+2949 chars]
Scientists are 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 Jul… [+9365 chars]
In bubbling vents off the coast of Ischia, a volcanic island in the Gulf of Naples, lives a curious population of black sea urchins. For at least 30 years, they have lived in these low pH, carbon dio… [+4204 chars]
The age of the noctilucent cloud is upon us. Night-shining clouds are historically rare, beautiful formations of shimmering ice crystals hanging in the upper atmosphere that were only visible in the … [+3402 chars]
To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can "live" outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of ou… [+7546 chars]
Astronomers have noticed a massive solar eruption but are not very sure if it is headed towards the Earth, Newsweek reported. Over the past few weeks, the solar surface has had some interesting act… [+2832 chars]
