Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets The ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, are the least understood planets in the solar system. They remain the only worlds that an orbital spacecraft has … [+2751 chars]
Bacteria and other unicellular organisms developed sophisticated ways to actively navigate their way, despite being comparably simple structures. To reveal these mechanisms, researchers from the Max … [+3968 chars]
A special bonding state between atoms has been created in the laboratory for the first time: With a laser beam, atoms can be polarized so that they are positively charged on one side and negatively c… [+4226 chars]
US space agency NASA has warned that the Sun is expected to release more frequent horrific solar flares in the near future as it nears the peak of its 11-year cycle called the solar maximum. Solar … [+1684 chars]
Whales sing, shrimp snap, and toadfish hum. But the stingray? Until recently, scientists believed the flat fish to be quiet as a pancake. Now, a study has broken that silence. Videos reveal that two… [+5166 chars]
Ever since humanity launched the first satellite into Earth orbit in the 1950s, we have sent a multitude of spacecraft to the other worlds in our solar system. Although humans themselves have only ev… [+3721 chars]
It has been 64 years since the inception of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for the civil space pro… [+6002 chars]
Black holes are among the largest, most massive objects in the universe. A black hole is defined as any object whose gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape, hence why they are… [+3144 chars]
<li>Carrigan, C.R., Sun, Y., Hunter, S.L, Ruddle, D.G., Wagoner, J.L., Myers, K.B.L., Emer, D.F., Drellack, S.L. & Chipman, V.D. Delayed signatures of underground nuclear explosions. Sci. Rep.6, … [+12504 chars]
Stars come in a wide variety of sizes. Some are small and some are big. Some are what we would consider to be behemoths. The sun may seem big to us from our small, rocky world, yet it is dwarfed by s… [+4287 chars]
Here on Earth, the fastest winds ever recorded reached 248 miles per hour (408 km/h) during a tropical cyclone in Australia in 1996. Although that seems extremely fast, its nothing compared to the fa… [+2451 chars]
A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years from the Earth. This is the first discovery by a new instrument on the Subaru Telescope and offers … [+2065 chars]
