Auroras are magical no matter whether you see them from the ground or from orbit up on the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Bob Hines needed all-caps and three exclamation points for a twe… [+1384 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]
A newly-discovered walking shark that breaks all of the rules for survival is the focus of a first-of-its-kind study by Florida Atlantic University and collaborators in Australia. Researchers investi… [+5034 chars]
NASA's new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of… [+2314 chars]
Imagine you visit a tourist attraction and you get someone to click a picture of you, only for some random person to come into the frame to photobomb you. They essentially ruin the image by taking aw… [+3101 chars]
Meet R136a1, the most massive star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it's a hulking behemoth weighing somewhere between 150 and 200 times the mass of the sun. Understanding the upper limi… [+2411 chars]
Emiratization, an initiative to encourage companies to employ more United Arab Emirates nationals in UAE-based companies, has been in place in some form since 2006 in the UAE. Beginning January 2023,… [+5478 chars]
NASA Hubble Space Telescope might not be equipped with the sophisticated technologies that the James Webb Space Telescope has, but the former has already earned a legendary status thanks to its contr… [+2780 chars]
The physics of collective motion has been well-studied for the last thirty years. Until now, scientists have focused on the study of "fluid" movements, such as those of flocks of birds or schools of … [+3598 chars]
Astronomers will be hoping for cloudy skies as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turns its attention to exoplanetary atmospheres laden with vaporized rock and crystals such as corundum … [+6544 chars]
This $1 billion telescope will be 4 times more powerful than James Webb Telescope, and 10 times more than Hubble; details
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]
