Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected two new extrasolar planets. The newfound alien worlds, designated TOI-5152 b and TOI-5153 … [+3290 chars]
The scientists were able to examine tens of millions of 3D positional assemblies with the help of a new technology they called Pore-C. The inner workings of the human genome can be revealed through … [+4700 chars]
Remember when Elon Musk launched a car into space? That car's not just peacefully drifting through a vacuumit's hurtling around the sun at 63,592 miles per hour, being bombarded by solar radiation. I… [+707 chars]
Researchers at Aalto University's School of Electrical Engineering have developed a new approach to control the properties of a light beam. By using the handedness of the light beam, the technique ac… [+2480 chars]
Its the stuff of disaster movies and sensational headlines: An asteroid, meteor, or comet is headed toward Earth. Are we doomed? Isnt this what took out the dinosaurs? Will we have enough lead time t… [+5500 chars]
In a bid to boost defence against near-Earth asteroids, China has started construction of the world’s most far-reaching radar system, Global Times reported. The system will be built in an observatio… [+1599 chars]
This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Martin Bauer (opens in new t… [+7832 chars]
A small space rock has proven to have a big effect on NASA's newly operational deep-space telescope. A micrometeoroid struck the James Webb Space Telescope between May 22 and 24, impacting one of th… [+4925 chars]
After a mass algal die-off in the Pacific, researchers used satellites, undergrads, artificial intelligence and children in tide pools to figure out what was lostand how it might come back. Image by … [+13008 chars]
All the extra warmth of summer is also getting trapped in the Arctic Ocean, then released throughout the winter. The greatest warming in the Arctic is happening in winter, which maybe surprises peopl… [+4007 chars]
Researchers have found that some retrons encode toxin proteins, which they keep inactive with the help of a small DNA fragment, and when a bacterial virus (phage) attacks bacteria the DNA can sense t… [+759 chars]
Jul 18 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Mark Abbott expected to get a long-awaited view of the previous 160,000 years of climate change when he and his colleagues extracted a 300-foot-long core of mud fro… [+4487 chars]
