Astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in 1992. They found a pair of them orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 about 2,300 light-years from the Sun. Two years later they discovered the third planet … [+12440 chars]
Enlarge/ The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking on Nov. 8, 2021. 151 with … [+6515 chars]
Scientists have unravelled the science behind the jets of plasma - the fourth state of matter consisting of electrically charged particles that occur just about everywhere in the sun's chromosphere, … [+4823 chars]
Research NewsNewly discovered 2020 XL5 dwarfs other known Earth Trojan asteroid Astronomers confirm second Earth Trojan asteroid March 7, 2022 An international team of astronomers observed 2020 XL… [+1962 chars]
More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age beasts -- giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an elonga… [+3462 chars]
When it comes to dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex or T-Rex is by far the most recognisable one. And now, researchers have revealed that this species could be recategorised into three separate ones, accor… [+3123 chars]
Kansas State University physicists Daniel Rolles and Artem Rudenko, and their graduate student, Xiang Li, are part of an international research team that has published the article "X-ray multiphoton-… [+4077 chars]
If you can't wait to travel in space, NASA is offering the public the chance to send their names on their next mission as they prepare to send humans back on the moon. Later this year, NASA will la… [+2282 chars]
Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred. This finding improves our understanding of how the human br… [+6594 chars]
While scientists can read DNA fast, editing and writing it is not that easy. Increasing the speed of editing and writing DNA sequences will be critical to ushering in new applications of genome engin… [+6688 chars]
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of an energetic outburst from a very young star, resulting in a colourful wispy structure called Herbig–Haro objects. The image shar… [+1707 chars]
Hundreds of millions of years ago, ancient life was sucked down into the Earth’s mantle, and traces of it have been discovered in rocks deep within the mantle. Scientists discovered carbon traces th… [+2245 chars]
