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]
Looking out of his backyard in the Canadian town of Strathmore, amateur astronomer and photographer Alan Dyer saw an unfamiliar sight dancing in the night sky: rippling arcs of reddish-pink aurora bo… [+2661 chars]
The GOES-17 satellite captured images of an umbrella cloud generated by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image… [+5844 chars]
What appear to be ripples of blue sand dusting the Martian landscape make the Red Planet appear even more alien than usual. The striking coloration is not, however, what it seems. To see the true be… [+2539 chars]
The motion of single atoms through liquid has been caught on camera for the first time. Using a sandwich of materials so thin they're effectively two-dimensional, scientists trapped and observed pla… [+3415 chars]
Figure: optic neuritis, red desaturation, dyschromatopsia Figure Almost everything I knew about color was wrong. I set out to write a column about how we emergency physicians are different from neu… [+5466 chars]
A composite image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus — also known as the Tarantula Nebula — reveals areas of cool gas that can collapse to form stars. (Image credit: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Won… [+6247 chars]
The Pillars of Creation are among the most well-known objects in our galaxy. They were one of the most popular targets for the Hubble Space Telescope, with the first images taken shortly after Hubble… [+2052 chars]
Western Australian government in negotiations to save Animal Resources Centre, amid fresh animal welfare calls The supply of laboratory animals to Australian researchers appears more certain as the … [+303 chars]
The first exoplanet has been discovered by Subaru Strategic Program using the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru Telescope (IRD-SSP). This planet, Ross 508b, is a super-Earth with about four tim… [+7888 chars]
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted what they think may be the farthest galaxy ever seen — a distant red smudge 35 billion light-years away. The galaxy, named CEERS-93316, … [+4174 chars]
Some experts believe the melting and refreezing of ice caps on the world's tallest mountains could be contributing to the irregular speed. Photo / NasaScientists have been left baffled after discover… [+3668 chars]
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