NASAs team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California is celebrating one year since its plucky Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight … [+3156 chars]
The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 chars]
The fireball streaked above Shropshire last week. (Gareth Oakey, UK Meteor Network) A huge fireball that streaked across the sky last week may have left a meteorite somewhere in Shropshire, scientis… [+2183 chars]
Shallow liquid water may be present on Jupiters moon Europa, data based on the Greenland ice sheet suggests.Europa is a prime candidate for life in the Solar System, and its deep saltwater ocean has … [+2536 chars]
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptunes atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptunes global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic… [+8068 chars]
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune." Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanat… [+3330 chars]
According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), a powerful solar flare on the surface of the Sun caused radio blackouts in Asia and Australia. On Sunday, April 17, a solar flare peaked an… [+2172 chars]
A fireball may have dropped some leftovers on Canada after sizzling through the sky. getty The Sunday night sky over Ontario was lit up by literal fire in the sky, which probably then dropped actu… [+1955 chars]
The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 chars]
Experimental studies have revealed that bacteria generate molecular noise. A team of researchers from TU Delft managed to capture a single bacterium’s low-level noise using graphene. While observing… [+2602 chars]
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped an image of a barred spiral galaxy called M91. Also known as NGC 4548 or Messier 91, the galaxy is located approximately 55 million light-years from E… [+804 chars]
Zoom/ A trapped blow fly on a carnivorous dewy plant. Cathy Kiefer | GT Towards the end of the 19th century, horrific stories about killer plants began to appear everywhere. Terrible tentacled tree… [+4644 chars]
