On November 13th, CAPSTONE will arrive at the Moon and be the first spacecraft to join a novel, elongated orbit to aid NASA’s Artemis missions. The first CubeSat to reach and function on the Moon will be the 55-pound, Cislunar ...
Approximately 550 million years ago, at the end of the Ediacaran Period, the majority of species on Earth died out due to a decline in worldwide oxygen supply, according to a new study by geobiologists at Virginia Tech. This early ...
While Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a good job of explaining planetary and stellar gravity, its applicability is less clear on smaller scales. Gravity affects everything equally because everything has it. Despite being the most ubiquitous of the ...
A winery-dotted valley to the east of San Francisco holds one of the best prospects for a sustainable energy future. Here at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is where you’ll find the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The same physics ...
Spatial crowding is a typical factor that plays a role in the identification of items in the periphery of the visual field. This phenomenon occurs when one item is crowded amid other things in space. In order to accurately evaluate ...
An exciting new era has begun in the quest for Earth-sized planets orbiting neighboring stars, which are extremely challenging to discover given their tiny size, with the “first light” of new planet-hunting equipment at W. M. Keck Observatory. The Keck ...
The “Cone Nebula” is depicted in breathtaking clarity in an image that was just made public. Approximately 2,500 lightyears separate us from it. The dramatic new view of the nebula shown at the end of the video, showcases its dark ...
Australian Outback rocks dated at 3.5 billion years could shed light on the question of whether or not life ever existed on Mars. Only ancient bacteria, claim scientists who have studied Australian rocks. If the Nasa Perseverance rover is exploring ...
What about these new asteroids known as ‘Planet Killers’? Astronomers have detected three asteroids near Earth. Two of them are a potential threat as ‘planet killer’ because of their hazardous and large size, but the good part is that they ...
This new instrument is ready to fly to Europa or Enceladus. But for what exactly is this instrument? NASA scientists are trying to find new locations where life could exist. So far, it is Saturn’s moon En, celadus, and Jupiter’s ...
Scientist and writer Matthew Cobb specializes in insect genetics as well as science history. Three potential uses for CRISPR have caused him concern since its discovery and application to genetic remodeling. His concerns were voiced in the latest book As ...
Nature is both stunningly beautiful and incredibly terrifying and one relatively new reminder of this is this cloud formation that looks straight out of a cosmic horror story! For years, many people from all over the world would send the ...
Paleontologists know plenty of stuff regarding the ancestors of modern chondrichthyans and osteichthyans, but updates always occur in science. It’s also the case here, as a new discovery consisting of toothed fish remains that are 439 million years old suggests ...
We know that Neanderthals were skilled hunters, but how about their diets? We are unsure whether or to what extent they added vegetables to their meals. Luckily, that’s about to change. Researchers are inclined to believe that at least some ...
A new, thriving ecosystem that has never been seen before was discovered during a recent underwater trip near a deepwater seamount in an archipelago in the Maldives. Researchers praised the discovery and dubbed it “The Trapping Zone,” a 500-meter-deep world ...
An examination of lunar materials that were brought back from the moon by China’s Chang’e 5 mission has created a new theory regarding the volcanism that occurred on the moon in its more recent past. The lunar samples that were ...
Plants may react to lightning, according to researchers. It has long been known to scientists that when plants and trees are caught in the electrical fields generated by thunderstorms, tiny, visible electric discharges can be emitted from the tips of ...
Some bacteria have been shown to have an extraordinary ability to digest things in their surroundings faster than their competition after they acquired a strange library of supplemental genes dubbed “Borg” DNA. Researchers hope to discover novel ways of engineering ...
According to a new study, wildfire exposure raises the risk of brain tumors, and climate change is to blame. A thorough investigation was in development to discover how exposure to wildfires is actually linked to an elevated risk of brain ...
According to a recent study, the water underneath Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be filled in phosphorus, a key feature of life as we know it. That could solve long-standing quests about the Universe, as well. The biochemistry of life depends ...
Elon Musk’s recent development is every sci-fi lover’s dream: a robot! Recently, Tesla unveiled a sleek humanoid robot model that the company believes might become a future product. At Tesla’s AI Day, the robot, called Optimus, entered the stage stiffly ...
The National Hurricane Center in Miami reduced Hurricane Ian to a tropical storm overnight due to its nighttime winds weakening. However, it carried a powerful punch as it moved over Florida into the Atlantic Ocean, and storm surges remained a ...
In the Pacific, a new island has formed as a result of an undersea eruption, and it looks intriguing! After 16 years of profound ‘sleep,’ a buried volcano on the seamount known as the Home Reef in central Tonga Island ...
Many of us like to be as attractive to others as possible for various reasons. We’re social beings by nature, but even so, being perceived as a pleasant individual is not always like a walk in the park. According to ...
If you’re like most people, you get a strong feeling of well-being and relaxation when you escape our digital world and spend a few hours or even minutes in the mountains, near a forest. If you’ve also been wondering why ...