The asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 PE is expected to miss Earth by just a few millions miles, making it the third asteroid flyby in a week. In terms of space, million miles is not that much and any de… [+1909 chars]
In October 2007, the otherwise underwhelming comet known as 17P/Holmes produced the most spectacular cometary outburst ever observed. Debris from this event will be visible this month to amateur tele… [+4352 chars]
This new revelation was not at all what the scientists expected. Our expectations about the asteroids surface were completely wrong said Dante Lauretta, principal investigator of OSIRIS-REx, based a… [+1113 chars]
Scientists have discovered a Super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star. The discovery is the first made by the IRD Subaru Strategic Program (IRD-SSP). Additionally, it has posed new questions to astronom… [+2349 chars]
Future treatments for advanced cancer could work by sticking cancer cells in place and preventing their spread around the body. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and … [+2236 chars]
All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur's pelvis. That's one of the findings in a new, Yale-led study in the journal Nature that explores t… [+3529 chars]
Manipulating solid particles of a few micrometers in size using an electric field has been of great interest to physicists. These controllable particles can be assembled into dynamic chains that can … [+4870 chars]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been astonishing us by sharing glimpses of stars, planets, and galaxies while studying the solar system. This time JWST has captured an image of glowing J… [+1719 chars]
NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is on a roll, having now collected and cached 12 samples of rock and soil during its ongoing explorations of the red planets Jezero Crater. In a tweet (below) posted on… [+2205 chars]
ByNASAAugust 5, 2022 Animation of the Orion spacecraft flying around the Moon. Credit: NASA. During Artemis I, which is scheduled to launch as early as August 29, NASA Established in 1958, the Nat… [+11092 chars]
Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund. Credit: Franz Johann Morgenbesser Edinburgh, 5 August 2022. – The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) announced the election of Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund as its n… [+1235 chars]
Newswise — Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2022 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Professor Françoise Combes, Chair of Galaxies an… [+2266 chars]