Researchers have identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Ocean -- one of Earth's main cooling systems. Ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. Many … [+2476 chars]
MiniResearchers at US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have developed a remote-sensing mapping system called the Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) that i… [+89 chars]
The eerie, ethereal sound of the singing saw has been a part of folk music traditions around the globe. Made from bending a metal hand saw and bowing it like a cello, the instrument reached its heyd… [+5398 chars]
NASA has shared a throwback picture of Earth and its only natural satellite - known as the Moon - which was captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the agency's … [+1350 chars]
NASA says that Hubble Space Telescope has found a giant comet with the largest nucleus ever seen by astronomers. NASA says that the giant comet named Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 UN271) is around … [+1986 chars]
Two of the biggest earthquakes have been detected by a seismometer placed by NASA's InSight lander on Mars. These earthquakes reported a magnitude of 4.2 and magnitude 4.1. According to data availab… [+2027 chars]
One of April's many cosmic attractions, the Lyrid meteor showers, are here, and they peaked last night! The meteors, named after the constellation Lyra, are part of a debris field left behind by Co… [+1233 chars]
Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of an "exceptionally well preserved" ancient animal near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario, Canada, in a stone quarry that is such … [+3933 chars]
Bengaluru: Astronomers in Europe have observed a new kind of stellar explosion for the first time, called micronova, according to results published in the journal Nature. This is a phenomenon where … [+5529 chars]
For two Colorado astronauts, Saturday is a big day. Jessica Watson and Kjell Lindgren will travel into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Watson will become the first Black woman to spend six months… [+553 chars]
In the ultrahigh vacuum of a scanning tunneling microscope, a hydrogen molecule is held between the silver tip and sample. Femtosecond bursts of a terahertz laser excite the molecule, turning it into… [+4368 chars]
Astrophysical plasmas have the remarkable ability to preserve magnetic topology, which inevitably gives rise to the accumulation of magnetic energy within stressed regions, including current sheets. … [+4634 chars]
