Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed… [+6725 chars]
ByUniversity of California - RiversideApril 25, 2022 A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the s… [+2201 chars]
Research at Lund University in Sweden has found a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser light pulses. The discovery could pave the way for new and more energy-efficien… [+3209 chars]
ByEleni Ravanis, University of Hawaii at MnoaApril 25, 2022 This illustration depicts NASAs Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA We made it! Perseverance is at the delt… [+3585 chars]
The earliest documented case of an aurora, the fleeting but brilliantly colored lights that sometimes illuminate the night sky, dates to the early 10th century B.C., a new study on an ancient Chinese… [+4324 chars]
As we speak, there’s a crisis playing out in physics. Does time exist? And if not, how do we explain our universe? It’s an absurd notion to question the very fabric of our reality; the clock, the cal… [+5397 chars]
In 1676, by studying the motion of Jupiter's moon Io, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer calculated that light travels at a finite speed. Two years later, building on data gathered by Rømer, Dutch mathemati… [+6818 chars]
THE INTERNATIONAL Space Station had to swerve to avoid a piece of Russian space debris over the weekend. According to CBS space reporter William Harwood, the ISS required a "reboost manoeuvre" on Sa… [+2842 chars]
ByEleni Ravanis, University of Hawaii at MnoaApril 25, 2022 This illustration depicts NASAs Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA We made it! Perseverance is at the delt… [+3585 chars]
ByUniversity of California - RiversideApril 25, 2022 A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the s… [+2201 chars]
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope sent its first photos earlier this year. Since then, it has come a long way, going through seven stages of mirror alignment. Astrophotography and astronomy fans, rejo… [+2491 chars]
That same astronomical thinking led them to patch the ancient Babylonian method of counting by 60, the sexagesimal system, onto the hour. Just as they divided the 360 degrees of a circle or the spher… [+2141 chars]
