An astrophotographer has taken his clearest ever picture of Saturn while it made its closest approach to Earth this year. Our planet moved almost directly between Saturn and the sun on Sunday, in an… [+7389 chars]
Images of lounging elephants, treefrog embryos and a parasitic fungus erupting from the body of a fly have all won prizes at an ecology photo competition. The doomed fly was captured by evolutionary… [+9321 chars]
On 8 August, 2021, 192 laser beams pumped vastly more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsule and ignited, for a faction of a second, the same thermonuclear fire that powers … [+4277 chars]
An astrophotographer has taken his clearest ever picture of Saturn while it made its closest approach to Earth this year. Our planet moved almost directly between Saturn and the sun on Sunday, in an… [+7389 chars]
NASA astronomers have discovered a new moon orbiting an asteroid 480 million miles from Earth. The three-mile-wide moon, which is yet to be officially named, orbits the 17-mile-wide asteroid Polymel… [+7937 chars]
Scientists have confirmed that on 8 August 2021, they were able to ignite the same chemical reaction that powers the Sun by pumping more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsu… [+2671 chars]
(a) Backscattered electron (BSE) image of Ryugu thin section A0058-2. Every black area consists of 20 NanoSIMS maps measured. (b) An area in section C0002 with a less altered lithology than the surro… [+3901 chars]
A team of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have just released the largest image taken by the telescope so far. The image is a mosaic of 690 individual frames taken with the telescope's… [+3576 chars]
ByUniversity of ArizonaAugust 18, 2022 Discovery of a large impact crater beneath the North Atlantic Ocean reveals that more than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs. A newly dis… [+4959 chars]
