WASHINGTON NASA is continuing to work with Roscosmos on a seat barter agreement despite missing a self-imposed deadline last month to complete a deal in time to allow exchanges on missions launching … [+2437 chars]
This week saw Asteroid Day, the yearly event about the risks to Earth of asteroid impacts, but the European Space Agency marked the event with some good news: The asteroid 2021 QM1, listed as one of … [+2295 chars]
On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN confirmed the observation of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle first proposed in the 1960s. The bosons discovery was a momentous occasion, as it meant physic… [+12298 chars]
ByVirginia TechJuly 2, 2022 A one-second discrepancy in the travel time of a set of seismic waves gives us an important and unprecedented glimpse of whats happening deeper in the Earths interior. T… [+6630 chars]
When we think of planets, we generally think of worlds that orbit a star. However, there are many planets that do not orbit a star, and instead, drift through the emptiness of interstellar space. The… [+3776 chars]
By Kate StockmannJuly 2, 2022 5:29amIt’s a big summer for stargazers this year. Dark Sky Chair for the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association, Mike Warkentin spoke with CKNX News Today about what we … [+1453 chars]
What does the VHE sky look like? These authors look for VHE gamma-rays from blazars collected by several catalogs, including 4FGL-DR3 from Fermi-LAT called (which can be seen in Figure 2), Roma-BZCa… [+3521 chars]
How far is the Sun from Earth? The distance between the Sun and Earth is, on average, about 149.6 million kilometres. That means that the Suns light takes about 8.3 minutes to reach Earth. Since the… [+4655 chars]
What does the VHE sky look like? These authors look for VHE gamma-rays from blazars collected by several catalogs, including 4FGL-DR3 from Fermi-LAT called (which can be seen in Figure 2), Roma-BZCa… [+3521 chars]
In the early hours of March 13, 1989, the public utility Hydro-Québec went out of service. The entire province of Québec lost power for nine hours, interrupting many aspects of public life for the en… [+7120 chars]
ByRutgers UniversityJuly 2, 2022 The researchers discovered three genes, MCM5, FGGY, and DDX60L, that are strongly linked to the risk of developing eggs with an abnormal number of chromosomes when t… [+4078 chars]
Throughout human history, how we consume and use energy has changed drastically. Over one million years ago, humanity first learned how to control fire. Today, our society is largely powered using fo… [+2467 chars]
