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]
From #maidlife to #astronomerlife, single mother Williamina Fleming devoted her life to studying and discovering stars and other space phenomena. Her achievements, including mentoring other female as… [+557 chars]
NASAs New Horizons spacecraft has seen amazing things since it launched over sixteen years ago. It has cruised by Jupiter, peeked at erupting volcanos on Io, and most famously, zipped past Pluto, bec… [+523 chars]
For her work showing that restoring lost bacterial cues in the gut can stimulate development of insulin-producing cells, potentially protecting against the autoimmune destruction associated with Type… [+9357 chars]
In 2015, it was found that the strongest known biologically occurring material, was possessed by limpets, a marine mollusk that has a shallow conical shell, often found attached to rocks. These smal… [+3989 chars]
ByETH ZurichJuly 7, 2022 False-color view of total ozone over the Arctic pole during the beginning of 2020. The purple and blue colors are where there is the least ozone, and the yellows and reds ar… [+5347 chars]
Our solar system is a perfectly balanced cosmic entity that supports our Sun eight planets and a dwarf planet, Pluto. However, this gravitationally stable system has been able to stay this way becaus… [+2108 chars]
A schematic of the DART mission shows the ship on a collision course with the Didymos asteroids moonlet. (NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab) Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid collided w… [+3097 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… [+6185 chars]
In what scientists believe was likely a meteor drop, New Zealanders across the North Island have reported rumbling, crackling sounds, a fireball and a huge flash of light streaking across the sky on … [+1811 chars]
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