University of California - Riverside Red medusa found just off the bottom of the deep sea in Alaska. CREDIT Hidden Ocean 2005/NOAA A previously overlooked factor the position of continents helps f… [+4285 chars]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a compact multi-petawatt laser that uses plasma transmission gratings to overcome the power limitations of conventional solid-s… [+5036 chars]
Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed some light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2… [+3571 chars]
Years of work by developmental biologists from Trinity College Dublin, working with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's MRC Human Genetics Unit, has yielded a resource that will help research… [+3930 chars]
It gets weirder: Some giant planets that spark star-killing ejections may also bring new worlds into existence as they are immolated in the stellar furnace. You can have a planet that is engulfed, th… [+1956 chars]
The Sun is in a pretty active state in recent weeks and it has been continuously spewing solar flares towards earth in that period. The Earth has been getting hit by a multiple solar storms, one afte… [+1689 chars]
It isn’t hard to see why so many people find mammoths compelling. Take all of the qualities that people find intriguing about elephants the high intelligence, the trunks and throw in the bittersweeet… [+1453 chars]
ByCORDISAugust 19, 2022 How do we know that time exists? Our entire lives are regulated by clocks, but what they measure is less certain. How can we be sure that time actually exists? Its time to t… [+4232 chars]
Emission maps of gas cooling Emission maps of gas cooling. Maps on the upper row show the [C ii] line at 158 µm, as well as the [O i] lines at 145 µm and 63 µm, which were observed with Herschel-PA… [+2604 chars]
The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 meters in height, around nine times taller than that from the highly… [+5048 chars]
Enlarge/ Skyrora announced this week it has completed a hot fire test of its XL rocket's second stage. 212 with 86 posters participating Welcome to Edition 5.07 of the Rocket Report! We are now jus… [+12855 chars]
ByMichael Carlowicz, NASA Earth ObservatoryAugust 19, 2022 1992 2022 Global mean sea level has risen 101 millimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992, and it continues to do so at 3.9 mm (0.15 inches) per … [+5467 chars]