An astrophotographer has taken a 107-hour long exposure of the Helix planetary nebula known as the Eye of God. Officially dubbed NGC 7293, the nebula is a nearby cloud of gas and dust located in the … [+2296 chars]
Some coronal loops that appear to emerge from the sun could actually be optical illusions created by folds or wrinkles in large sheets of stellar material called coronal veils, new research suggests.… [+5238 chars]
It was a year ago that UK-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) company DeepMind released and open-sourced their AI system AlphaFold to predict the 3D structure of a protein just from its 1D amino acid … [+3872 chars]
Holes in sea ice provide the perfect hunting ground for polar bears looking to catch their main food sourceseals. So when rising temperatures cause sea ice to melt, polar bears existence is threatene… [+4889 chars]
Zeta Ophiuchi, one of the well known and oldest stars in the sky and it is hurtling towards the Milky Way Galaxy. The star is 20 times hotter than the Sun and is located 440 light-years from Earth. I… [+1570 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]
Working hypothesis on human evolution says that the ability to use fire in a controlled manner was a major step. The fire gave protection from cold and even led to man cooking his food before consump… [+1486 chars]
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]
On Aug. 22, 2016, a fireball streaked across the sky over South Australia. A low, bright meteor. It was one of hundreds of space rocks that plunge through Earths atmosphere every yearand are big enou… [+8554 chars]
Scientists discovered that a fourth of the progenitor cells in the testis are murdered by phagocytes, despite the fact that these cells are not doing anything wrong. University of Haifa research has… [+4821 chars]
Astronomers have witnessed a rare and important life event in the evolution of binary star couplings for the first time. The team discovered a tight binary star surrounded by an expanding shell of … [+3416 chars]
On December 25th, 2021, after many years of waiting, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space. In the sixth-month period that followed, this next-generation observatory unfurle… [+8156 chars]
