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]
South Korea launched its first robotic mission to the Moon last week, as a SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Danuri Lunar Pathfinder mission on August 4, 2022, from Floridas Cape Canaveral … [+2320 chars]
Australia’s newest supercomputer, Setonix, has created a highly-detailed image of a supernova remnant using an enormous amount of data collected by the ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfi… [+2579 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]
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have discovered that spider silk proteins can be fused to biologically active proteins and be conver… [+3481 chars]
Below Europa's thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves … [+3924 chars]
I was the kind of child who liked to explore chemistry, not take motors apart. Now I do both. I earned my undergraduate and masters degrees in industrial chemistry at the University of Bologna, Italy… [+1752 chars]
TOKYO -- A sample of material taken from an asteroid by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe offers a clue to how organic matter found in meteorites on Earth could have survived without burning up in the atmosphe… [+274 chars]
The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS) is one of the most ancient and broadly occurring mutualistic associations between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). This intimate relationship … [+1622 chars]
"It has an unusually high amount of stars being born and has been used by astronomers as a laboratory to better understand the fascinating phenomena of star formation," the ESO explains. An example … [+756 chars]
Would you like to contribute your creativity to an international team of scientists from various disciplines focusing on basic research in the area of molecular life sciences? The European Molecular… [+1617 chars]
Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space opportunity: to name a planet discovered by the groundbreaking James Webb Telescope. The IAU is resp… [+3128 chars]