If you've been following the astronomy community on Twitter or, perhaps, Captain America himself, you've likely come across a story about the James Webb Space Telescope's latest find: The "oldest gal… [+4460 chars]
The prints are also helping us to distinguish different types of substructures. For instance, if youre looking at a filament in two spatial dimensions, it might actually be a two-dimensional sheet th… [+4292 chars]
Landsat 1 launched 50 years ago on July 23, 1972, aboard a Delta 900 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Since then, the fleet of Landsat satellites has grown to eight and revolutioni… [+1186 chars]
Approximately 365 million years ago, one group of fishes left the water to live on land. These animals were early tetrapods, a lineage that would radiate to include many thousands of species includin… [+6853 chars]
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage of a spacewalk on Thursday, July 21, by a Russian cosmonaut and an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut to continue outfitti… [+1697 chars]
Solar winds from the snapping of a gigantic "canyon of fire" filament on the sun are set to slam into the Earth today (July 20) or tomorrow (July 21), triggering a weak G1 geomagnetic storm. Sun wat… [+4512 chars]
Many historic buildings were built of sandstone, such as Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. Sandstone is easy to work, but does not withstand weathering well. It consists of sand grains that are relat… [+3324 chars]
ByMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of MatterJuly 20, 2022 An infrared pulse (blue) excites the electron dynamics in bulk Na3Bi. Due to strong spin-orbit coupling, the spin-up elec… [+4508 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]
Mat Kaplan: A visit with former NASA chief scientist, Jim Green, this week on Planetary Radio. Welcome. I'm Mat Kaplan of The Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar and … [+68024 chars]
A restaurant in southwestern China was discovered to be harboring ancient history, as dinosaur footprints – dating back 100 million years – were found in the establishment's outdoor courtyard. Foot… [+1723 chars]
You don't normally want to mix electricity and water, but electricity behaving like water has the potential to improve electronic devices. Recent work from the groups of engineer James Hone at Columb… [+4667 chars]