asteroid: A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most asteroids orbit in a region that falls between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers refer to this region as the asteroid belt. atmospher… [+9339 chars]
Never-ending fields, towering dunes, and irregular ridges on Io could be formed by winds and lava flowing under a crust of sulfur dioxide ice. A study published on April 19, 2022, in Nature Communica… [+1216 chars]
An international research team, including scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have used a new observation technique to discover the brightest extragalactic pulsar known, and it … [+2984 chars]
New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonised the continent on two occasions in the Ro… [+3271 chars]
Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealt… [+7599 chars]
After being puzzled for more than 60 years, scientists at NASA have finally developed a theory that can explain how the explosions on the Sun take place. This has also revealed how solar flares are b… [+2077 chars]
This network of long grooves and scratches forms part of a giant fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae, and is shown here as seen by ESA's Mars Express. At first glance, these features look a… [+3656 chars]
The Universe is expanding, this is a known fact. According to The Big Bang Theory (not the series, the actual scientific theory), the Universe originated in an unimaginably massive Big Bang, and mate… [+1250 chars]
We all must play the game of life with the cards were dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were … [+6315 chars]
A new study by scientists at the University of Utah explains how mom and dad's genes shape behavior. Each parent has a unique influence on hormones and other chemical messengers that control mood and… [+2828 chars]