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]
For the first time, scientists have found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The researchers identified a distant object with properties that lie between those of a galaxy and those of a so-… [+4654 chars]
Since late March, the sun has been unleashing solar flares powerful enough to cause radio blackouts on Earth, including one that occurred on Easter Sunday and shut down radios in parts of Asia and Au… [+4435 chars]
New research might have finally found why one side of the Moon's surface is different from the other. The research revealed that one side of the Moon's surface might have been impacted when a massi… [+2046 chars]
Georgia State University researchers have successfully designed a new type of artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture and allows for greater depth of color r… [+4546 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]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will line up in the sky this week and could stay visible to the naked eye for a number of weeks. Skygazers will be treated to the sight from Wednesday all the way thr… [+2300 chars]
Originally discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or as researchers refer to them, FRBs, are one of the many mysteries of the universe that are yet to be fully explained by science. FRBs are a radio… [+1278 chars]
A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation , non-ionizing and io… [+3793 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]
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) satellite orbiting Mars has captured another piece of NASA equipment on the surface of the Red Planet. An image captured by the MRO's High Resolution Imaging… [+975 chars]
