Research suggests a layer of concentrated haze that exists on both planets is thicker on Uranus than a similar layer on Neptune. The layer whitens Uranus' appearance more than Neptunes. If there were… [+3092 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have found that granular matter (such as sand) and some b… [+2791 chars]
Do you remember the first time you saw a creature and thought, I may never see this kind of creature again? I remember seeing Scottish wildcats at a wildlife center when I was a kid and being told … [+6647 chars]
A new technique for studying some of the brightest objects in the universe has thrown a curveball into scientists' understanding of the link between active monster black holes and the suppression of … [+3911 chars]
Newswise — An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf of Mexico, where life was sheltered by the basin’s un… [+4414 chars]
NASA's CAPSTONE mission, which would examine a never-studied-before orbit of the Moon, has suffered its first delay. In the latest update, Rocket Lab, which is providing the launch vehicle for CAPSTO… [+2426 chars]
Noise protection: An optical micrograph of the circuit used in the experiment, showing aluminium electrodes in light grey and niobium electrodes in dark grey. The insets are scanning electron microsc… [+4876 chars]
Weakly electric fish provide excellent study systems to analyze. The fish has independently evolved electric organs from muscle. However, how the fish could evolve its electric organs remains unclear… [+3177 chars]
An asteroid up to three times larger than a blue whale will zoom past Earth on Monday (June 6) at more than 16,000 mph (26,000 km/h),according to NASA (opens in new tab). The asteroid , named 202… [+2274 chars]
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as Ross 508. The newly found alien world, which received designation Ros… [+3414 chars]
Hubble Space Telescope imagery of Minkowski's Object (lower left) and the elliptical galaxy NGC 541. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Croft (Eureka Scientific Inc.); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (N… [+2585 chars]
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, after recovering from an extended safe mode event. The spacecraft enc… [+5604 chars]