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]
Animals that live in groups tend to be more protected from predators. That idea might be common sense, but it's difficult to test for some species, especially for wild populations of fish that live i… [+5917 chars]
Larvae of longhorned beetles develop primarily in woody tissue, which is difficult for most organisms to digest. However, longhorned beetle larvae possess special enzymes to break down the various co… [+6530 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]
When NASA sent the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to the red planet in 2006, the spacecraft took an instrument with it called CRISMCompact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars. CRISM’s job… [+8407 chars]
Article body copy Have you ever looked at a seal and thought, Is that the same seal I saw yesterday? Well, there could soon be an app for that based on new seal facial recognition technology. Known … [+3515 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]
Researchers are using pulsar timing arrays, or PTAs to investigate ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves, that form the gravitational wave background, produced by the mergers of supermassive blackh… [+3527 chars]
The newest discovery in a series of archeological findings in the Siberian region further suggests that the first humans to inhabit the arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago. The discovery occurred … [+3788 chars]
Ever since NASA Mars Perseverance Rover first landed in February 2021, it has been collecting rock samples, analysing the terrain and trying to find evidence of former microbial life on the planet. H… [+2005 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]
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]
