Scientists have finally discovered what the material that is being spat out of an asteroid is but not exactly how it is happening. The discovery is a step towards understanding a phenomenon that ha… [+2868 chars]
Astronomers said last week that the world's largest radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, might've picked up a signal from the youngest exoplanet discovered to d… [+4768 chars]
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London: Keeping astronauts breathing aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and other space vehicles is a complicated and costly process. An international team of scientists have proposed a po… [+2254 chars]
An electrocatalytic method has been developed that can generate metal hydrides more cleanly and efficiently. The researchers then used the hydrides to reduce carbon dioxide to formic acid, a high val… [+4976 chars]
Forget Boaty McBoatface, your chance to name an alien world has finally arrived! An international competition has been launched to name 20 exoplanets that will be studied by the James Webb Space Tel… [+7437 chars]
The enormous star known as Betelgeuse has been a target of study since the early days of astronomy. As one of the brightest objects in the sky, it’s visible even without a telescope. But in 2019, it … [+2553 chars]
The long-standing mystery of how sauropod dinosaurs, such as Brontosaurus and Diplodocus, supported their massive bodies on the ground, has long been solved by science. A team led by the Universitie… [+3491 chars]
The Sun, which is bursting with solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar storms, is going through its middle age, estimated at 4.57 billion years. The Gaia spacecraft, which has been credited … [+2631 chars]
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has detected novel quantum effects in high-precision studies of natural double-layer graphene and has interpreted them together with … [+2727 chars]
In a series of experiments on lanthanum superhydride with impurities, researchers from Skoltech, Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS and their colleagues from the United States, Germany and Japan, have… [+5095 chars]
Thanks to its infrared vision, James Webb Space Telescope can pierce through dust clouds and see further than any telescope has ever seen. As you may have read, it can take photos of the universe as … [+1128 chars]
