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]
A young female bat weighing a quarter of an ounce has flown more than 1,500 miles from Russia to the French Alps, the longest bat flight ever recorded. The Nathusius pipistrelle bat bests the previo… [+4965 chars]
We all must play the game of life with the cards we're dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were… [+6110 chars]
WASHINGTON A NASA lunar cubesat mission is now scheduled to launch in late May on a Rocket Lab Electron after resolving issues with the rockets kick stage. In a call with reporters after the May 2 l… [+2550 chars]
Mays Full Moon will reach its maximum just as spring peaks around much of the United States. Appropriately for the scene surrounding many Americans, the May Full Moon is called the Flower Moon. But… [+3944 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The ability of a forest to regenerate after droughts, wildfires or other disturbances is largely dependent on seed production. The findings of two recent investigati… [+5434 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]
The sunset and crescent moon are visible as the SOFIA team prepares to observe Venus. Credit: NASA / AFRC, Carla Thomas Edinburgh, 3 May 2022. – NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), who has a… [+1260 chars]
Research from the University of Warwick sheds new light on a key cause of cancer formation during cell division (or mitosis), and points towards potential solutions for preventing it from occurring. … [+2582 chars]
A team of MIT scientists is looking for black hole echoes in an effort to shed some light on the regions of spacetime that largely remain a mystery to us. See, black holes only show any semblance of … [+1860 chars]
ByNASAMay 2, 2022 NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare as seen in the bright flash in the upper right portion of the image on April 30, 2022. The image shows a subse… [+1829 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a new study, there was a period of accelerated global climate change in an ice-capped world about 304 million years ago, similar to the present. In just… [+4638 chars]
