Months after the Perseverance rover captured a stunning video of a solar eclipse as Phobos blocked the sunlight when it crossed between the Sun and Mars, China's Tianwen-1 orbiter has zoomed in on th… [+2346 chars]
This Bite is part of Astrobites ongoing efforts to celebrate all cultures and identities in astronomyspecifically, were highlighting disabled astronomers and those fighting for disability justice in … [+6078 chars]
UNITED STATES: Researchers from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx discovered that the Sun’s radiation splits rocks on Bennu in about 10,000 to 100,000 years, showing that surface regeneration occurs much more quickl… [+2452 chars]
One of the reasons I went to law school (I know, this is a science magazinestay with me a second) is because when I was young, people would always say, You can do anything with a law degree! But near… [+2852 chars]
New images of Mars explore the depths of the Red Planet's Valles Marineris canyon, the largest canyon system in the solar system. The European Space Agency's (ESA) images, which were taken using th… [+2979 chars]
The field of exoplanet study has come a long way in recent decades. To date, 5,063 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,794 systems beyond our own, with another 8,819 candidates awaiting confirmation.… [+6919 chars]
Asteroid activity around the Earth has been picking up lately. Just a week ago, NASA spotted a 290-feet wide asteroid zooming past our planet. And now, an even bigger asteroid is going to make its wa… [+2151 chars]
The development of high-speed strobe-flash photography in the 1960s by the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton allowed us to visualize events too fast for the eyea bullet piercing an apple, or a… [+4550 chars]
Professor Kalliopi Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, led the European research team which included Dr Thomas Bisbas from the University of Cologne. Scientists mode… [+4140 chars]
UNITED STATES: Researchers from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx discovered that the Sun’s radiation splits rocks on Bennu in about 10,000 to 100,000 years, showing that surface regeneration occurs much more quickl… [+2452 chars]
ByU.S. Department of EnergyJuly 24, 2022Some components included in an integrated human-natural systems model to capture feedbacks among human-caused drivers and natural systems at the regional and g… [+1922 chars]
Microscope image of genetically engineered kidney organoids were used to solve a medical mystery about tuberous sclerosis complex. Credit: Cell Research Scientists have solved a medical mystery in a… [+3169 chars]