Look to the southeastern sky in the early hours of Thursday (July 21) morning to see the waning crescent moon shining close to Mars. The pair will be close enough to share the field of view in a pa… [+2445 chars]
Sun has been in a pretty active state for the last few months. The star has been erupting frequently and unleashing solar storms towards Earth. Its most recently-caused solar storm has hit the Earth … [+1745 chars]
Figure 1:The mathematical condition called thermomajorization indicates that there exists a thermal process that can change the state of the system from p to q. But the condition doesn’t indicate wha… [+9793 chars]
In a bid to solve our climate woes, a team of researchers from Simon Fraser University is working with the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to investigate the role carbon… [+4028 chars]
Lets be honest : Penguins are a little, well, weird. Theyre flightless birds that waddle around on the coldest reaches of planet Earth, but they can also dive to impressive depths below the ocean's … [+6235 chars]
Gemini South, one of the world’s most productive and powerful optical-infrared telescopes, received a major capability boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph cal… [+5779 chars]
It was the early '90s when, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met by an urgent message. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image after image was … [+12902 chars]
Groundwater at depths of several hundred meters or more can be hundreds of millions of years old and are often thought of stagnant and isolated from the atmosphere and the water cyclea reason these s… [+4447 chars]
Researchers are discovering that an uncommon disease epidemic in Antarctic fish may be caused by climate change. John Postlethwait and Thomas Desvignes, two scientists from the University of Oregon, … [+2889 chars]
Illustration of the Solar System viewed from beyond Neptune, with all eight planets visible around ... [+] the Sun, created on April 14, 2016. (Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Ge… [+1650 chars]
The 3D reconstruction of the skull trapped inside a rock, which belongs to the newfound species Mamorerpeton wakei. (Image credit: Marc Jones) (opens in new tab)A bizarre, newly discovered species … [+4647 chars]
Long before the dinosaurs appeared, when the first forests stretched toward the sky and enormous insects ruled Earth , a humble, shovel-faced fish with particularly strong fins decided to try its … [+3620 chars]
