For the first time in almost 5,000 years of observations, researchers have fully cataloged optical illusions created in the sky as light shines through ice crystals known as atmospheric halos. The … [+4843 chars]
Penguins are perhaps best known for being flightless birds whose wings help them "fly" through frigid Antarctic waters. But penguins lost their ability to fly and instead became streamlined swimmers … [+5339 chars]
A parsec is a unit of distance that is often used by astronomers as an alternative to the light-year, just as kilometers can be used as an alternative to miles. Sci-fi franchises such as "Star Wars" … [+4494 chars]
Space junk from an old SpaceX mission may have landed in rural Australia. A chunk of charred material reportedly left over from the reentry of a SpaceX spacecraft was found in the middle of a sheep … [+4788 chars]
Astronomers have created the largest-ever 3D map of a million distant galaxies obscured by the Milky Way’s neighboring dwarf galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. Magellanic clouds form irregularly gala… [+3130 chars]
Astronomers have created the largest ever 3D map of 1 million distant galaxies otherwise obscured by the Milky Way's dwarf galaxy neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds. The Magellanic Clouds are irregul… [+3407 chars]
In late 2020, Alphabet's DeepMind division unveiled its novel protein fold prediction algorithm, AlphaFold, and helped solve a scientific quandary that had stumped researchers for half a century. In … [+2033 chars]
Radio waves from space flow through our atmosphere every day, but the fast, steady and repeated bursts that were detected in 2019 and recently released to the public are unusual and mysterious. Kiy… [+830 chars]
One of the objectives for the James Webb Space Telescope is to find out how soon after the Big Bang galaxies began to form, and when stars started manufacturing the elements needed for making planets… [+3801 chars]
Overview of birth-death model and main results. A) Diagram of the two-dimensional birth-death process describing the dynamics of a bacterial population consisting of public good producers and cheater… [+4996 chars]
On July 21, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti became the first European woman to perform a spacewalk. On the occasion of this release, internet users shared an impressive selfie which, accordi… [+2392 chars]
With the launch of Artemis I being just around the corner, NASA is upping the ante during tests that would ensure a long-term human presence on the Moon. In the recent phase of preparations, engineer… [+2131 chars]
