Humanity seems destined to expand into the Solar System. What exactly that looks like, and how difficult and tumultuous the endeavour might be, is wide open to speculation. But there are some undenia… [+9866 chars]
Astronomers have proposed a concept mission to fly a neutrino observatory into orbit around the Sun to get a better picture of what’s happening in the Sun’s core. Astronomers have very few tools to … [+2384 chars]
The preparation of carbon nanotubes via flame synthesis involves a combustion system modified with a carbon source, heat source, and appropriate catalytic material. To this end, building carbon nanot… [+6233 chars]
SpaceX managed a record 31 launches in 2021, but its more-than-weekly pace in 2022 including a launch Sunday morning let it match that record less than seven months into the year. A Falcon 9 rocket … [+2024 chars]
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), sometimes called the K2 “megacomet,” came closest to Earth on Thursday, July 14, at a distance of about 168 million miles. The CanadaFranceHawaii Telescope (CFHT) suggested K2’… [+1124 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]
In the evolutionary arms race between rattlesnakes and their prey, rodents, birds and other reptiles develop resistance to the snakes' deadly venom to survive. But new research led by the University … [+5775 chars]
The study of the genomes of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, has opened up new research paths that can broaden our understanding of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens. A … [+6794 chars]
National snapshot of research and data shows methods are not keeping pace with change The fast expansion of data as a research tool is posing challenges for Australian scientists, according to a rep… [+306 chars]
Researchers have discovered a dormant black hole outside the Milky Way. The stellar-mass black hole has been observed in a neighbouring galaxy by a team of international scientists. The newly found… [+2278 chars]
Stars dont usually evolve fast enough for humans to notice them change within one lifetime. Even a hundred lifetimes wont do astronomical processes are just too slow. But not always. There are some p… [+9527 chars]
Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter throughout the universe. Their size and scale can vary considerably. The Milky Way in which we live has 200 billion stars, which puts i… [+4020 chars]
