On clear summer nights, poet Donna Kane sleeps on the front deck of her farmhouse in Rolla, B.C., in an old-fashioned bed under a blue quilt printed with crescent moons. The writer draws inspiration… [+3534 chars]
Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows that bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse "blew its ... [+] top" in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic Surf… [+3257 chars]
How advanced can a civilization become? The technological advancement of a civilization will be dependent upon how much energy that civilization has at its disposal. In 1964, the astronomer Nikolai K… [+3175 chars]
How advanced can a civilization become? The technological advancement of a civilization will be dependent upon how much energy that civilization has at its disposal. In 1964, the astronomer Nikolai K… [+3175 chars]
The early moments of the universe were turbulent and filled with hot and dense matter. Fluctuations in the early universe could have been great enough that stellar-mass pockets of matter collapsed un… [+3031 chars]
Antarctica is situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and covers an area of 14.2 million km2. Described as a polar desert, the continent has an average annual precipitation of 166 mil… [+2973 chars]
Brain researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have been awarded a $4 million grant for the miniscope they developed to better observe brain activity in animals. The grant was … [+1958 chars]
65 In the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a mystery lies submerged: a interstellar object still unknown, crashed in 2014, which scientists now want to fetch and examine. A mysteri… [+3018 chars]
When you look at a region of the sky where stars are born, you see a cloud of gas and dust and a bunch of stars. It’s really a beautiful sight. In most places, the stars all end up being about the sa… [+4164 chars]
It has also raised a lot of questions - from why it can be big and land on the ground to how dangerous is it when it hits. There are a lot of common misconceptions about space junk. Firstly, no, spa… [+3743 chars]
2 with 2 posters participating If the spectacular images from the NASA James Webb Space Telescope have you hankering to learn more about whats Out Thereor at least to see more pretty pictures of itT… [+3237 chars]
In the near future, NASA and other space agencies will send astronauts beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the first time in over 50 years. But unlike the Apollo era, these missions consist of astronaut… [+6697 chars]