The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is scheduled to begin its fourth run of operations in March 2023 after over two years of maintenance work and upgrades. During its lates… [+1787 chars]
Thursday, July 7: As we come fresh off the heels of World Asteroid Day last Thursday, it seems like one rockstar has arrived fashionably late to the cosmic party! According to calculations by NASA,… [+1852 chars]
After spending nearly a day in the dark, NASA's CAPSTONE mission, a microwave oven-sized CubeSat, has re-established contact with mission officials, the US space agency has said. "Mission operators … [+1943 chars]
Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano groupthat is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond to a nitrogen atomare typically toxic. But paradoxically, they are also a key prec… [+5510 chars]
Scientists are working to harness and modify this natural process of plants converting water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into oxygen and energy in attempt to produce food, fuel, and other things. P… [+2291 chars]
A mummified pup discovered in Siberia is not a dog, new research finds. Rather, the cute-and-cuddly canine is actually a young wolf. In a new study aimed at understanding dog domestication, researc… [+3917 chars]
A recent study published by scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK has concluded that there might be no life on Venus. The study published in the journal Nature Communications, mentions … [+2091 chars]
Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this wa… [+6779 chars]
A geomagnetic storm just hit the Earth! NASA's weather forecaster, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has informed that a solar storm was generated by the Sun and it hit the Eart… [+2149 chars]
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is all about studying near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In a recent development, researchers have found new secrets about asteroid Bennu, that too when a tiny object hit the astero… [+1918 chars]
A team of physicists has developed a method for predicting the composition of dark matterinvisible matter detected only by its gravitational pull on ordinary matter and whose discovery has been long … [+2787 chars]
