The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the m… [+4630 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animalsshort periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or formhave long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a… [+3149 chars]
Depiction of neutron star blowing out warm and cold winds. Credit: Gabriel Pérez (IAC) Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time bl… [+11405 chars]
One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the wrong section of a host's genome, creating the possibility th… [+4779 chars]
March 2, 2022 — LEGO rolled out its version of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) on Tuesday (March 1), two weeks before the space agency was scheduled to do the same with the real moon-bound rocket.… [+5123 chars]
Two huge black holes are locked together by gravity as they inevitably spiral towards a collision, researchers have found in a new study. Researchers in a new study have spotted two supermassive bla… [+3694 chars]
Tonga's volcanic eruption will not plunge Earth into another 'Year Without a Summer' and will have a smaller cooling impact than first thought, a new study reveals. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an und… [+9703 chars]
A massive asteroid with a comparable size bigger than Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, and The Shard, the tallest building in the UK, is continuing its fly-by on Earth at 03:00 a.m. E… [+3406 chars]
A towering colossus and predatory beast, the comically tiny-armed Tyrannosaurus rex is perhaps the most iconic of all prehistoric predators. Its place in the popular imagination is mirrored in academ… [+4864 chars]
A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever discovered … [+2818 chars]
The evolutionary relationships among grassesincluding important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcanehave been clarified in a new molecular study of the grass family tree. Having a clear … [+5388 chars]
One of the best motivators to solve a problem is to experience it yourself. Dr. Bonnie Dunbar happened to have just such an experience. She is a former NASA astronaut and is now a professor of Aerosp… [+4428 chars]
