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]
As you read this, our home, the Milky Way galaxy, and its cosmic neighbor, Andromeda, are traveling along a collision course. Billions of years from now, they'll smash together and amalgamate into a … [+3215 chars]
NASA's Voyager probes to interstellar space are icons of cosmic exploration, and you can celebrate their 45th anniversary with a free science webcast tonight (Aug. 18). The space agency's Jet Propu… [+2579 chars]
Figures released by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee show the number of burglaries in Laois has declined dramatically in the past decade. A factor in that decline in more recent years may have be… [+1892 chars]
Image: Rocket Labs Electron-launched private mission to Venus will deploy a small probe from a high-energy Photon. Regular, low-cost Decadal-class science missions to planetary destinations will be … [+767 chars]
Jupiter's icy moon Europa is an ocean world encased beneath a thick crust of ice -- a place where snow floats upward. The underwater snow forms in the global ocean and travels up though the water to… [+4735 chars]
Nitrogen (N) deficiency first affects the N uptake and assimilation systems of plants. Nitrate, the main source of plant N, is absorbed and transported by nitrate transporters. Nitrate can be metabol… [+4046 chars]
Researchers have published work in Advanced Materials describing a rapid and simple method to form ordered arrays of gold nanoparticles with plasmonic properties. Plasmonic nanoparticles prepared by… [+2247 chars]
After scrutinising material that was brought to earth from an asteroid named Ryugu by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2, scientists are saying water may have come to our planet from the outer edges of … [+4497 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]
Title:Eccentric debris belts reveal the dynamical history of the companion exoplanet Authors: Laetitia Rodet, and Dong Lai First authors institution: Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary S… [+4332 chars]
Oceans have their own unique soundscape. Many marine organisms, for example, use sound for echolocation, navigation or communication with conspecifics. In recent decades, however, more and more sound… [+3589 chars]
