ByBill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 27, 2022 Artists rendering of NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists have discovered shade… [+5891 chars]
Black holes are a fixture of science fiction -- whether it's the time-warping regions of space seen in the 2014 movie Interstellar to the all-consuming planet destroyers of Star Trek. But while Holly… [+1820 chars]
Physical scientists seem to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a rivers swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos i… [+7461 chars]
With the Artemis 1 mission just weeks away from launch, teams at NASA and the program’s contractors are carrying out final preparations for this major milestone in the effort to return humans to the … [+8357 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 … [+5736 chars]
New research has revealed that high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays that bombard the Earth from deep space originate in blazars — actively galactic nuclei (AGN) that lurk at the center of galaxies… [+4832 chars]
On June 28, 2009, Stephen Hawking sat alone in a college at the University of Cambridge and waited patiently for party guests to arrive, but not one of them showed up. Then he sent out invites. Send… [+2483 chars]
ByWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at HarvardJuly 27, 2022 The research found that one day, pathogen tolerance might be increased in order to treat infections in humans and other… [+11439 chars]
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 … [+2328 chars]
At 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history was made. The dawn calm was torn asunder as the United States Army detonated a plutonium implosion … [+4041 chars]
Nearly 600 people saw a bright fireball break up over Texas on Sunday night (July 24), and some have even heard its sonic boom indicating pieces of the rock may have reached Earth. Observers in a sw… [+2725 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]
