The star Betelgeuse appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. But when viewed close up, astronomers know it a… [+5815 chars]
NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a mysterious, stringlike material on the surface of Mars. Turns out – it was likely just trash discarded there by the rover itself. In a blog post last week b… [+1664 chars]
Silver-colored dust drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover on July 30, 2015. Analysis of the dust revealed it contained the mineral tridymite, which was very unexpected. (Image credit: NASA/JP… [+5984 chars]
Introduction Pathogenic bacteria produce a broad spectrum of molecular factors that facilitate colonization of the host organism, combat its immune response, and help acquire nutrients. These compou… [+76209 chars]
In 2014, the first known meteor from outside of our Solar System crashed into the ocean near Papua New Guinea. It was one and a half feet wide, but broke up into smaller fragments. Scientists will at… [+2122 chars]
Asteroids coming close to Earth and whizzing past have been making the headlines recently. The trend continued as today, a blue whale-sized asteroid, dubbed Asteroid 2022 LG4 (NEO), will reportedly f… [+1493 chars]
More than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system, according to NASA, and this week astronomers announced they may have discovered the youngest one so far. Scientists using the Atacama Large Mil… [+3083 chars]
image: Group photo of participants in the XXXI IAU General Assembly, which was held from 2-11 August in Busan, Korea.view more Credit: IAU/GA2022 NOC The XXXI General Assembly of the International… [+6313 chars]
Based on mitogenome evidence, we found that the two Rhacophorus individuals we collected in Motuo County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China were R. rhodopus (Figs. 5, 6 and 7). The two sequences h… [+11143 chars]
by Birgit Kinkeldey, Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (ZARM) An international research team led by ZARM scientist Dr. Cyprien Verseux has identified a cyanobacteria su… [+4938 chars]
by Gesine Steiner, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung Scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with colleagues from the U.S. and Au… [+4552 chars]
A meteorite on Earth holds new evidence that asteroids do indeed mysteriously spit out pebbles, a new study finds. In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft discovered a strange new phenomenon when the … [+5173 chars]
