New York, July 15 Astronomers have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity, similar to a 'heartbeat'. The signal … [+2302 chars]
An animated dive into the dusty Milky Way reveals the outlines of our galaxy taking shape as we look out further and further from Earth. Based on new data from an interactive tool that exploits data… [+3019 chars]
Groundwater that was recently discovered deep underground in a mine in South Africa is estimated to be 1.2 billion years old. Researchers suspect that the groundwater is some of the oldest on the pl… [+4767 chars]
The largest full moon of 2022 put on quite a show for moongazers all over the world Wednesday (July 13). Known as the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon or Hay Moon, the July full moon appeared big and bright … [+1253 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]
Space fans and those curious about astronomy are celebrating the reopening of the Centre of the Universe visitor centre. Operated by the Friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, the centre… [+2504 chars]
A team of researchers from IBM Research Europe, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and the University of Regensburg has changed the bonds between the atoms in a single molecule for the first time… [+2906 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… [+2205 chars]
A team of scientists from the IUFLeibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf developed and validated a computational webserver that allows scientists to genotype mutations usi… [+2157 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]
NASA has released a new batch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, this time, featuring Jupiter and some of its moons. The images of our solar systems biggest planet were taken using the … [+3467 chars]
In the fairy-tale landscape of the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland, the skull of one of the most ancient salamanders ever discovered to date was excavated from Jurassic limestones. … [+6219 chars]