This July, a gigantic comet will make its closest pass by Earth, where it has been headed for the last five years. The comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), often called K2 for short, was first spotted by th… [+1967 chars]
Enlarge/ Boeing's Orbital Flight Test-2 mission launches on May 19, 2022. 21 with 16 posters participating Five weeks have passed since Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned from a largely success… [+3298 chars]
DOOMSDAY conspiracy theories are abounding as the new July 5 CERN Large Hadron Collider experiment is set to create unprecedented levels of energy. The European Organization for Nuclear Research is … [+2863 chars]
A G1-class geomagnetic storm hit the Earth last Saturday, causing bright auroras over Canada, Newsweek reported. The only problem is that nobody saw this storm coming until it was quite late. Solar… [+2852 chars]
ByColumbia Climate SchoolJuly 1, 2022 With a lava flow in the distance, a primitively feathered theropod dinosaur carries off a mammalian victim during a snowy volcanic winter caused by massive erup… [+11369 chars]
Octopuses are brainy creatures with sophisticated smarts, and now scientists have uncovered a clue that may partly explain the cephalopods' remarkable intelligence: Its genes have a genetic quirk tha… [+3327 chars]
ByColumbia Climate SchoolJuly 1, 2022 With a lava flow in the distance, a primitively feathered theropod dinosaur carries off a mammalian victim during a snowy volcanic winter caused by massive erup… [+11369 chars]
A team of researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology, in China, working with a colleague in the U.S., has developed a new kind of aerogel for use in flexible thermal insulation material applic… [+2624 chars]
ByAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)July 1, 2022 In this illustration, stars are seen to be in close orbit around the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of th… [+17260 chars]
NASA aims to set up a crewed outpost near the moon's south pole, calling it "our first foothold on the lunar frontier." The ingredients for that encampment, known as Artemis Base Camp , are an unp… [+11630 chars]
China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival. The Tianwen 1 orbiter used its medium-resolution camera to image the surfac… [+2769 chars]
Enlarge/ Boeing's Orbital Flight Test-2 mission launches on May 19, 2022. 21 with 16 posters participating Five weeks have passed since Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned from a largely success… [+3298 chars]
