It's a question you might well have asked yourself whilst gazing up at the night sky: Could Earth support more moons like the Moon? Or would the gravitational forces involved pull our planet out of i… [+3302 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]
NASA's asteroid-touring mission has picked up a ninth target. In preparation for the Lucy mission to explore a distant class of asteroids called the Trojans, astronomers have been monitoring the t… [+3118 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]
In 2019, astronomers revealed the first ever close-up image of material swirling around a black hole. It was a staggering achievement, combining the power of many radio telescopes across Earth to mak… [+5689 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 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]
A study finds that frequent nightmares could be an early warning of Parkinsons Disease. According to experts at the University of Birmingham, older adults who begin to have nightmares or disturbing … [+2938 chars]
The alarm goes off in the morning. You catch your morning train to the office. You take a lunch break. You catch your evening train back. You go for an hour's run. Eat dinner. Go to bed. Repeat. Birt… [+3638 chars]
A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is … [+2173 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]
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]
