Of the thousands of exoplanets discovered so far, the most common are "super-Earths" — worlds bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Some of these planets even lie within the habitable zones of … [+5933 chars]
Back page gossip from the 4 August issue of Research Europe Holiday reading With this issue of Research Europe coming out on 4 August, the chances are that many readers are about to head off on wel… [+149 chars]
In 1610, Galileo Galilei peered through a telescope and observed, "I have seen Jupiter accompanied by three fixed stars, totally invisible by their smallness. The planets are seen very rotund, like l… [+6608 chars]
In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einsteins equations that precisely described the space-time outside what we now call a rotating black hole. (The term wouldnt be coined for a f… [+6317 chars]
In 2014, an object crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Data collected at the time indicated that the meteorite just might be an interstellar object, and if that's true, the… [+5206 chars]
For centuries, sailors have told tales of nights when, for a few surreal hours or more, their ships would come across seas that glow the color of milk. The eerie phenomenon appeared like a plain cove… [+3351 chars]
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - NASA and the White House have since late last year quietly drawn up contingency plans for the International Space Station in light of tensions with Moscow that began bui… [+6704 chars]
A report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory states that a 213-meters wide asteroid named 2022 OE02, larger than the Statue of Unity (182 meters) located in the state of Gujarat, India is expected … [+2115 chars]
Enlarge/ A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Eart. A black widow pulsar heats the facing side of its stellar partner to temperatures twice… [+6250 chars]
The circadian clock entrains rhythmic patterns in behavioral and physiological processes to temporally coordinate systemic metabolism with the rising and setting of the sun. In previous investigation… [+2208 chars]
Washington: A gigantic plasma buildup has been observed on the eastern limb of the Sun, with flares erupting up to 3,25,000 kilometers, almost the distance between the Earth and Moon. According to th… [+1935 chars]
NASA launched its Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was NASA's first space mission to study the Trojans, a group of asteroids which orbit… [+2086 chars]
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