These very words may have flown through an undersea cable before reaching your eyeballs. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optics crisscross the worlds oceans, shuttling emails, Netflix shows, … [+2433 chars]
Everyone loves looking at the Moon, especially through a telescope. To see those dark and light patches scattered across its surface brings about a sense of awe and wonder to anyone who looks up at t… [+4692 chars]
3-D: Short for three-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something that has features that can be described in three dimensions height, width and length. align: (noun: alignment) To place or… [+4727 chars]
LONG BEACH, Calif. The launch of a NASA mission to the asteroid Psyche has been delayed at least a month and a half because of a problem with the spacecrafts software, the agency confirmed May 23. I… [+2486 chars]
Published: 9:42pm, 24 May, 2022 Updated: 9:42pm, 24 May, 2022
We have a glimpse now of NASA's latest vision for its first crewed Mars mission. The agency released (opens in new tab) its top objectives for a 30-day, two-person Mars surface mission on Tuesday (M… [+3141 chars]
Most parts of the world witnessed a total lunar eclipse at the beginning of this month and will see a massive asteroid passing the planet on May 27. The asteroid is potentially dangerous and nearly 2… [+1415 chars]
Observations of a young binary star system have led astronomers to new insights into how planets might form. In a system with two or more stars, planetary disks are cyclically sloshed about by the co… [+2494 chars]
Life on our planet is possible because of the Sun, but the relative proximity of our nearest star comes with risks, too. Intense outpourings of radiation and matter from the Sun, for instance, can cr… [+6024 chars]
For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success. That endeavor is now at an end, though, thanks to new research from the Universit… [+4170 chars]
ByNASAMay 24, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 474, a gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474 located about 100 million light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Carter (Liverpool John Mo… [+2246 chars]
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University and Dennis Mücher, University of Guelph(T… [+7156 chars]
