Artists view of Swarm, ESAs first Earth observation constellation of satellites. Credit: ESAP. Carril, 2013 The pressure is rising at ESAs mission control. A European Space Agency (ESA) satellite do… [+5587 chars]
A particularly fascinating phenomenon arises for proteins that contain a topological knot in their polypeptide backbone, that is, proteins that would not fully disentangle after being pulled from bot… [+2149 chars]
NASA this week released the first set of science-quality images from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, which is expected to find the first galaxies that formed in the early universe and peer t… [+3771 chars]
A possible scene at Liang Bua around 70 000 years ago. A giant marabou stork challenges a juvenile ... [+] Komodo dragon for access to the carcass of a dwarf proboscidean while other giant marabou st… [+2541 chars]
Life in the Arctic is harsh. Arctic temperatures are punishing, making life difficult for many animals to survive. Yet lots of insects, including mosquitoes, manage to thrive in the frozen region. So… [+3810 chars]
A piece of Mars that fell to Earth more than 2 centuries ago is telling planetary scientists a little about how the Red Planet was born. A recent analysis of the meteorite showed that volatile elemen… [+6478 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]
Just a few days after NASA released images of the distant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, Greek researcher Polychronis Patapis, a member of the team and one of the first to see them, sa… [+830 chars]
Researchers are preparing to present new research that shows a team-up effort between human and artificial intelligence. The new research will be presented by Dr. Mike Walmsley from the University o… [+1630 chars]
Born in the cradle of deep space, blasting across the universe at nearly the speed of light and harnessing energy up to a million times greater than anything achieved by the world's most powerful par… [+5139 chars]
Changes in atmospheric density after sunset can cause hot pockets of gas called 'plasma bubbles' to form over the Earth's equator, resulting in communication disruptions between satellites and the Ea… [+2266 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]
