For the James Webb Space Telescope, the milestones have been one after another. A little more than a month since this trailblazing instrument left humanity in awe following the release of its first i… [+6717 chars]
Today's VIS image shows the upper elevations of Olympus Mons, including part of the summit caldera. Scarps and extensional features (graben) record multiple stages of caldera collapse at the summit o… [+1114 chars]
William & Mary funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation studied spider silk in such detail they were able to determine the structure of the silk fibers. Spider silk is known for its strengt… [+1656 chars]
Do not panic when you read the following sentence: there are sharks that have developed legs who can walk on land. No, this isn't a creature feature a la "Sharknado" or "Snakes on a Plane." This is … [+2788 chars]
Image credit: Rick Bolin, via Flickr (cropped). The recent flutter over whether the James Webb Space Telescopes data stream is a plus or a minus for the Big Bang and the Standard Model of the univer… [+3887 chars]
NEW YORK — Every second we’re alive, we’re moving through time. How people perceive the “flow of time” is from the past to the present to the future, moving in one direction like an arrow. Scientists… [+2891 chars]
Stable rotating black holes If a black hole is stable, it will eventually revert to Kerr's mathematical description, even after receiving an intense jolt from gravitational waves. If these black hol… [+1354 chars]
The history of water on Mars flows a lot deeper than scientists once believed. A new project has mapped hundreds of thousands of rock formations on the Red Planet that may have been altered by large … [+2387 chars]
The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is much richer in complex organic molecules than scientists expected, and until now, some of those molecules had never been seen around a comet. Because comets … [+4673 chars]
Aug 22 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Metallic glass is a significantly advanced alloy with potential for numerous engineering uses. In many ways, it resembles a solid form due to its exquisite metal ap… [+3082 chars]
The absorption of a small galaxy into a larger spiral galaxy seems to have acted as a 'black hole delivery system' leaving a distant galaxy with two supermassive black holes that will eventually coll… [+3182 chars]
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappearbut scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe. In a new study, two astrophysic… [+5135 chars]
