Washington: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region… [+2717 chars]
A passion for the natural world drives many of our adventures. And when were not outside, we love delving into the discoveries about the places we live and travel. Here are some of the best natural h… [+5643 chars]
COVID-19 was a daunting experience for most Limerick businesses and community organisations, but for the Caherconlish/Caherline Millennium Centre it was only one in a series of misfortunes. For no s… [+1304 chars]
The early moments of the universe were turbulent and filled with hot and dense matter. Fluctuations in the early universe could have been great enough that stellar-mass pockets of matter collapsed … [+2995 chars]
Good news for the hardy little Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which has braved the Martian winter thus far and will soon be getting back into the air. The helicopter has been taking a break from flight s… [+2248 chars]
The winners of the BMC Ecology and Evolutionphotography competition have just been announced. This year's contest has served up a spectacular collection of images that capture nature in action, as we… [+4021 chars]
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While for decades Mars has been the planet outside Earth that has arguably received the most attention, in recent years, planetary scientists have been setting their sites on our other neighbor: Venu… [+2321 chars]
Nothing lasts forever, including the stars in our night sky. One of the brighter and more notable stars in our sky is Betelgeuse, the bright red supergiant in the shoulder of Orion. In late 2019, as… [+4622 chars]
ByOzGravAugust 20, 2022 Artists illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Occasionally pulsarsrapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouseshow extr… [+4805 chars]
New York, Aug 20 (IANS): Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought, a new Harv… [+2799 chars]
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