A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the starswell, a dead star, that is. On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in sou… [+3922 chars]
Dead star remnants never looked this good. Dead Star When a star dies in a spectacularly powerful supernova, it blasts its incredibly hot remains into the cosmos, forming what's called supernova re… [+1985 chars]
More than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system, according to NASA, and this week astronomers announced they may have discovered the youngest one so far. Scientists using the Atacama Large Mil… [+3083 chars]
Mars, now a dried-up desert, once ran with water, with the tracks of past streams and rivers still visible across the planet. A leading theory suggested that the water on Mars became part of the mine… [+5059 chars]
Deflecting an asteroid such as Bennu, which has a small chance of hitting Earth in about a century and a half, could require multiple small impacts from some sort of massive human-made deflection dev… [+4015 chars]
A team of scientists from Georgia Tech say they've built a robot that can move without anything to push against - a discovery that seems to violate the law of conservation momentum. The researchers… [+3897 chars]
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the starswell, a dead star, that is. On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in sou… [+3922 chars]
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The year's last supermoon rose in night skies around the world last night. Here, the "sturgeon moon" rises behind the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany.
NASAs most powerful rocket is nearly ready to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 42-day journey to the Moon and back, but this deceptively straightforward plan involves a ton of moving parts includi… [+13251 chars]
Summary: Researchers say they have created the most bio-realistic and complex computer models of individual brain cells. Source: Cedars Sinai Cedars-Sinai investigators have created the most bio-re… [+4304 chars]
image: Concrete mixing using recycled tyre rubber particles for the complete replacement of traditional coarse aggregates.view more Credit: Mohammad Islam, RMIT Engineers in Melbourne have discove… [+3553 chars]
