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]
On June 28, NASA successfully launched the CAPSTONE project, which is the first step forward towards paving the way for the Artemis missions that will put astronauts back on the moon after a gap of 5… [+6585 chars]
As future locations to explore in our solar system go, some particularly exciting options are worlds with subsurface oceans. Places like Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa are both tho… [+2573 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]
Toronto, Jul 3 (IANS): While bone loss is a natural phenomena as human bodies age, astronauts on long-duration flights tend to have a permanent loss of bone density, finds a study. The findings, pub… [+2136 chars]
Earthshine Moon July 2022: When and how to watch it? Jul 03, 2022, 06:01 pm2 min read This year has been great for astronomy enthusiasts. From the five-planet alignment and Blood Moon to the Tau He… [+1622 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]
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]
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]
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]
ByESA/HubbleJuly 3, 2022 Galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger that lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, as captured by the Hubble Space Teles… [+2930 chars]
NEW YORK: In a Caribbean mangrove forest, scientists have discovered a species of bacteria that grows to the size and shape of a human eyelash. These cells are the largest bacteria ever observed, tho… [+8423 chars]
