BEIJING, June 29 (Reuters) - An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, including visuals of its south pole, after circling the planet more than 1,300 times since … [+1376 chars]
What we thought we knew about carnivorous plants was swiftly called into question after scientists discovered a new species in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. Ne… [+4706 chars]
A new simulation of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission suggests that rather than leaving a crater behind, the DART impactor could severely deform the small asteroid it will collid… [+2742 chars]
Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model contribute to its prediction. For example, if a model predi… [+6390 chars]
When white dwarfs go wild, their planets suffer through the resulting chaos. The evidence shows up later in and around the dying star’s atmosphere after it gobbles up planetary and cometary debris. T… [+5193 chars]
The violent event that likely preceded our solar system's formation holds the solution to a longstanding meteorite mystery, says new work from Carnegie's Alan Boss published in The Astrophysical Jour… [+3986 chars]
Hi Sky Watchers, In May I asked you to start looking up and not to keep looking down at the ground. I do realize that there is some danger to not look at where we are putting our feet, but its worth… [+3173 chars]
More than 50 years after the discovery of the first pulsar, the detailed physics of the emission process in a pulsar magnetosphere still remains unclear. The radio emission from pulsars is highly po… [+2325 chars]
NASAs Artemis mission aims to put humans back on the moon for the first time after the Apollo 17 mission, fifty years ago. The space agency has built the most powerful rocket ever, the Space Launch S… [+5946 chars]
It has long been known that when salt is kept in a humid environment, it absorbs water, dissolving some of the salt and making it clump. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that water vapor i… [+2711 chars]
The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)the most potent greenhouse gasesinto the atmosphere from African lakes are reassessed in a study undertaken by the Laboratory of Chemical Oceano… [+4837 chars]
While the world awaits the release of first images from the James Webb Space Telescope on 12 July, the Hubble Space Telescope is still producing stunning images of its own. Images like this wide fi… [+973 chars]