July's full moon — nicknamed the Buck Moon — will charge across Earth's skies on Wednesday, July 13. The moon will reach its peak at about 2:38 p.m. EDT (18:38 UTC) on Wednesday, but the Buck doesn't… [+1716 chars]
A team of astronomers, including those from Cambridge University, has observed the slow spin of a distant galaxy for the first time ever using the Chile-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter A… [+2170 chars]
ByUniversity of CologneJuly 7, 2022 Artists illustration of a black hole. A star was discovered zipping around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, at an astonishing speed of 8… [+3477 chars]
Around 4.4 billion years ago, the early solar system resembled a game of space rock dodgeball, as massive asteroids and comets, and, later, smaller rocks and galactic debris pummeled the moon and oth… [+5851 chars]
For the past six months, Scott Friedman and a team of roughly 160 scientists and engineers have been working through one of the most daunting to-do lists in all of science. Nearly every day, they dro… [+12040 chars]
Ethan Schaler, a robotics mechanical engineer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, loves the idea of exploring new worlds. He also loves acronyms, based on his project called Se… [+5211 chars]
Astronomical enthusiasts can witness various celestial phenomena in the skies in July. These include planets like Mars and Venus dominating the morning skies, dog stars and meteor storms. Here is the… [+52 chars]
Geckos get their iron grip that allows them to scale vertical surfaces with ease because of microscopic, hair-like structures on their feet, known as setae. Researchers investigating the setae on a m… [+2547 chars]
In space no one can keep it clean, with the total mass of all objects in orbit said to equate to around 9,900 tonnes. To combat this, Chinese scientists have developed a huge sail, which they say ca… [+7831 chars]
UCLA materials scientists and colleagues at the nonprofit scientific research institute SRI International have developed a new material and manufacturing process for creating artificial muscles that … [+5076 chars]
On April 19, 2021, NASAs Ingenuity helicopter became the first powered aircraft to lift off from the surface of Mars. The historic 39-second flight set the stage for an entirely new way of exploring … [+3950 chars]
A team of researchers from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad campus, has synthesized two small fluorescent molecules (fluorophores), highly selective and sensitive to u… [+4996 chars]
