Data from a NASA probe suggests lunar pits have comfortable temperatures due to their shadowy overhangs, which keep them cool during the day and prevent heat from escaping at night. Hard to believe … [+2331 chars]
The Edinburgh galaxy is the latest in a succession of "most distant" observations from Webb Scottish astronomers have spied what they believe to be the most distant galaxy ever observed, using the n… [+4448 chars]
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+5585 chars]
The creation of palladium (Pd) and silver (Au) nanoplate-containing nanofluids for volumetric absorption of intense solar radiation in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with parabolic-trough col… [+5511 chars]
The near side of Earth's Moon, as seen using data from cameras aboard NASA's robotic Lunar ... [+] Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State Universi… [+3339 chars]
The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially named Danuri, is the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's (KARI) first exploratory space mission outside of Earth's orbit. Danuri will launch o… [+5229 chars]
Today, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria re-launched its plant biodiversity website, VicFlora. The new portal features upgrades that allow users to identify Victoria's plants more easily. It is based on… [+3581 chars]
The biggest shark in our oceans already has a reputation for being a gentle giant, and it seems there's more to this than we ever realized. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are filter feeders, thought … [+3572 chars]
When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ago, they changed how the world explores. On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home … [+6161 chars]
The Gale Crater was chosen as Curiosity’s landing site due to the likelihood that it once held liquid water and, indeed, the rover found evidence that confirmed it was actually a lake as recently as … [+2257 chars]
Extreme rainfall as a driver of volcanic hazards. (a) Pleistocene volcanic sector collapses of Volcán de Colima, Nevado de Toluca, Citlaltépetl and Cofre de Perote (Mexico), reproduced after Capra et… [+4144 chars]
A new Curtin University study has found that water was transported much deeper in the early Earth than previously thought, shedding new light on how the continents were originally formed. The study,… [+2751 chars]
