Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analyzing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission. In a quest to… [+2647 chars]
Editor's note: Update for Aug. 16: Due to bad weather, the Saturn opposition webcast from The Virtual Telescope Project has been rescheduled for Tuesday (Aug. 16) at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT). The ri… [+3654 chars]
63 with 46 posters participating Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the Earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tas… [+6008 chars]
Scientists are entering a new era of space science one that will be defined by not simply searching for planets circling distant stars, but by figuring out whether any of them could support life. W… [+4102 chars]
The sun has spat out two clouds of plasma in the past two days, which might trigger beautiful aurora displays observable much farther south than usual. The two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), erupt… [+2554 chars]
When scientists unveiled humanity's historic first image of a black hole in 2019depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward itthey believed even richer imagery and insi… [+4160 chars]
Scientists have confirmed that last year, for the first time in the lab, they achieved a fusion reaction that self-perpetuates (instead of fizzling out) bringing us closer to replicating the chemical… [+3535 chars]
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappearbut scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe. In a new study published in Phy… [+5549 chars]
The shell of Jupiter's famous ice moon may be formed, in part, by pure underwater snow that floats up instead of falling down. A new study, published in the August issue of the journal Astrobiology,… [+3158 chars]
The Universe began as a strange sort of soup. Large galaxies hadnt yet formed, and flying particles were hotter than the centres of stars in the Universe today. Of these, tiny particles known as quar… [+19915 chars]
At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers fresh insight into somethin… [+5791 chars]
With the Sun approaching its solar maxima (period of maximum activity in its 11-year solar cycle), the ball of fire is practically crackling with animosity. And while we Earthlings were able to enjoy… [+2562 chars]
