The Polaris Dawn mission has a December launch target. Commander and billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who will command the private Polaris Dawn mission on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, made … [+2890 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]
In Part 1 of this series, we talked about navigating the different kinds of astro postdocs and deciding which ones you want to apply for. Now its time to actually apply to the positions on your list!… [+14119 chars]
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust,… [+2889 chars]
Title: Modeling Stellar Surface Features on a Subgiant Star with an M-dwarf Companion Authors: M. C. Schutte, L. Hebb, S. Lowry, J. Wisniewski, S. L. Hawley, S. Mahadevan, B. M. Morris, P. Robertson… [+4600 chars]
by Laura Herraiz Borreguero, Alberto Naveira Garabato and Jess Melbourne-Thomas, The ConversationWarmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research… [+4973 chars]
The universe is littered with galaxy clusters huge structures piled up at the intersections of the cosmic web. A single cluster can span millions of light-years across and be made up of hundreds, or … [+6819 chars]
An international team of researchers has uncovered the reason that less lightning occurs over tropical oceans than over land. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group … [+2507 chars]
Newswise — The North Pacific Blob, a marine heatwave that began in late 2013 and continued through 2015, was the largest and longest-lasting marine heatwave on record. A new study using data collecte… [+4190 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]
The latest published paper on synthetic embryo research does in fact mark a significant shift in our scientific capacity to "create life". Are we ready for it? Reading Time: < 1minuteGet the best… [+2338 chars]
Last month NASA's Perseverance rover snapped an image of the martian surface that caused the internet to claw for answers at what was seen in the image. Perseverance managed to capture a strange str… [+904 chars]
