People who are intrigued by space, the universe, and beyond were treated to a wonderful sighting this week. According to the Mail Online, the first full-colour photos taken by NASA's James Webb Spa… [+1595 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a strange and persistent radio signal from a galaxy roughly 1 billion light-years away. Studying these flares could provide clues about their mysterious origins, and give … [+2963 chars]
Refilwe Moloto spoke to member of the Cape Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa - Carl Lindemann about the remarkable images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of a cluster of g… [+1792 chars]
Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains. This led to the notion that their skulls must act like shock-ab… [+3871 chars]
Peanut and Mark take the idea of unlikely best friends to a new level. Peanut is a squirrel who lives in Mark Longo's house, and they do almost everything together. Their bond began when Mark s… [+1607 chars]
An international team thinks its managed to pinpoint where a 4.5 billion year old meteorite found on Earth came from on Mars. The rock known as Black Beauty, or more prosaically NWA 7034 has intrigu… [+2629 chars]
Florida [U.S], July 15 (ANI): After many delays, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft finally lifted off to begin its journey to the International Space Station. The uncrewed flight, known as CRS-25 will carr… [+1812 chars]
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto seven years ago, but the probe's work is far from done. New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt… [+6179 chars]
The high heat and low water conditions produced by global warming weaken pine trees' resistance to disease by hindering their ability to mount an effective defense at the same time that pathogenic fu… [+5428 chars]
Many science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding because of friction as prototypical examples of the systems physicists care about. But much of modern physics consists o… [+22747 chars]
Refilwe Moloto spoke to member of the Cape Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa - Carl Lindemann about the remarkable images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of a cluster of g… [+1880 chars]
Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete pr… [+5495 chars]