View larger | Hubble Space Telescope view of Earth-sized bruises on Jupiter, caused by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s spectacular multiple impacts with the giant planet in 1994. This image is from a few da… [+7005 chars]
A megacomet has just passed safely by Earth, but there's still a chance it will grow brighter through the summer as it reaches its closest approach to the sun in December. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS… [+2824 chars]
The creation of a black hole is intrinsically tied to the lifecycle of very massive stars. During what is known as the main sequence lifetime of a star it is using hydrogen as a fuel for a process ca… [+1551 chars]
The team behind the first Chinese X-ray astronomy satellite, Insight-HXMT, has discovered the strongest magnetic field directly measured in the universe hitherto. It is a known fact that neutron st… [+3610 chars]
Inside Earth, elements such as iron and aluminum experience such extreme temperatures and pressures that the materials ooze through Earth’s interior—on geological timescales—like sap moves through a … [+2671 chars]
The biomolecule diphthamide is essential for the proper formation of proteins in cells. When humans are infected with diphtheria, diphthamide is altered by the diphtheria toxin so that life-threateni… [+2918 chars]
ByMIT Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringJuly 15, 2022 This image shows self-organized, spherical clusters of cells that decompose alginate. Differences in fluorescence indicate differ… [+4582 chars]
A team of astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to find a slowly-rotating galaxy in the early universe. That galaxy is the youngest ever found with a measured rotation, and it’s much slower than p… [+2115 chars]
Diffraction spikes are so in right now The first full-color image released from the JWST. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Stars in the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope look sharper than… [+4219 chars]
All hail the king of the planets, newly arrived in the evening sky. Jupiter is currently rising in the night sky around midnight on the eastern horizon, dominating at an impressive -2.5 magnitude. (… [+2155 chars]
New York (CNN Business)American and Russian astronauts will once share space aboard the same spacecraft after NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, reached a ride-sharing agreement Friday foll… [+1090 chars]
IntroductionThe Role of Microbes in the EnvironmentHow Human Activity Affects Microbial PopulationsHow Do Microbes Respond and Adapt to Environmental Change?Adaptation of Marine Microbes to Climate C… [+6492 chars]
