There's alcohol up in space. No, it's not bottles of wine discarded by careless astronauts; rather, it's in microscopic molecular form. Now researchers think they've discovered the largest alcohol mo… [+3626 chars]
Astronauts exposed to micro-gravity for months at a stretch encounter severe loss of bone density and do not recover even a year after their space mission, new research has warned. Published in Scien… [+2297 chars]
Northrup Grummans Cygnus cargo spacecraft conducted a successful reboost of the International Space Station on Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Cygnus NG-17 Piers Sellers is the first U.S.-based spacec… [+4218 chars]
Besides being Independence Day, Monday is also aphelion day when Earth is farthest from the sun at 94.5 million miles. There is a slight flexure in the Earths orbit from the gravitational interactio… [+3480 chars]
On Monday (July 4), Earth celebrates Independence Day by getting as far away from the sun as possible — reaching what astronomers call aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT). At aphelion, Earth will be… [+1948 chars]
Mars can be an awfully windy place, it turns out. The Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet in February 2021 carrying, among other instruments, a weather station dubbed Mars Environmenta… [+3285 chars]
Robots are capable of treading in areas inaccessible to humans, and this was proven during recently concluded tests by the German Space Agency (DLR). During the Helmholtz Future Project, Autonomous R… [+2136 chars]
Communication is essential for animals living together in functional communities. In flocks of birds, for example, flight maneuvers and the movements of individual animals must be quickly coordinated… [+2793 chars]
Supernova is an outright explosion of the star. The phenomenon is associated with death of a star. But a 'Nova' is a different type of explosion. It is a transient (short-lived) phenomenon in the uni… [+1931 chars]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is set to explore the worlds of Uranus and Neptune--two of the most mysterious objects in the universe due to the fact that the planets have been experiencing diamon… [+1618 chars]
Earlier this year, the underwater Tonga Volcano in the Pacific Ocean resulted in a massive blast that shot out massive pressure waves through the atmosphere across the world. Shutterstock Also Read… [+2306 chars]
By Kate StockmannJuly 3, 2022 5:29amIt’s a big summer for stargazers this year. Dark Sky Chair for the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association, Mike Warkentin spoke with CKNX News Today about what we … [+1453 chars]
