Every year for the past three decades, California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds has traveled to the Caribbean island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands to document t… [+2737 chars]
As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to Earth, especially during the first few hours after sunset and the first few hours before sunrise. As more companies la… [+6972 chars]
The violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022, injected an unprecedented amount of water directly into the stratosphere - enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-… [+2569 chars]
Really understanding how someone else experiences something has always been of utmost interest but hard to attain. Is the redness that you experience the same as the redness that I experience? How ca… [+2089 chars]
A two-pound surgical robot is headed to the International Space Station in 2024 to test its abilities. The robot will work autonomously, though it can also be operated remotely. It will run through a… [+1958 chars]
Its cold and dim in the Solar Systems suburbs. Triton, the largest of Neptunes 14 known moons, gets 900 times less sunlight than Earth, and much of that light reflects off the icy worlds surface. Thi… [+1227 chars]
The hypothalamus is best known as the controller of hormone secretion to regulate essential bodily functions such as reproduction and feeding, and is one of the only brain structures to demonstrate a… [+10078 chars]
Although the particles of dark matter continue to allude us, astronomers continue to find evidence of it. In a recent study, they have seen its effect from the edge of visible space, when the univers… [+2895 chars]
Bioscientists from Durham University, UK and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany have predicted in their latest research that bird communities will change worldwide in 2080 … [+4150 chars]
New Zealand has a research ticket to work on the International Space Station. The country partnered with commercial research company Axiom Space on July 28 to fly experiments on future missions with… [+3193 chars]
Shaun the Sheep is set for an all new adventure after being assigned a seat on the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday that the title character from t… [+2174 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a 'super-Earth' orbiting a red dwarf star just 37 light-years from our solar system. The exoplanet Ross 508 b skims the so-called habitable zone of its parent star, th… [+4065 chars]
