Asteroids may have helped create the conditions for life on early Earth; scientists find |
For decades, asteroid impacts have been seen as forces of pure destruction, the kind that wiped out the…
Structural origin of line-tension reversal in nanoscale wetting of water
Bonn, D., Eggers, J., Indekeu, J., Meunier, J. & Rolley, E. Wetting and spreading. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81,…
A body on the edge of our Solar System has an atmosphere – and scientists still aren’t sure how that’s possible
Astronomers have discovered signs of a thin atmosphere surrounding an icy body beyond the orbit of Neptune –…
‘We’re putting in foundational roots’ – Winnipeg Free Press
RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF ROSSER — A short time ago, in a rural municipality not so far away, a…
Want to start stargazing? Here’s why June is the perfect time for newcomers
Each November in the Northern Hemisphere, the astronomy world cranks up a gear. As Orion’s Belt and the…
Swiss Research Shows That Quantum Physics Generates Randomness
The project, conducted at ETH Zurich, involved two connected cryostats that cooled superconducting units called qubits, which behave…
Enceladus, a tiny Saturnian moon only about 500 kilometres wide, is actively venting water vapour and ice grains into space from a salty ocean hidden beneath its crust — and modelling suggests that ocean may have remained warm and chemically active for geological timescales, perhaps long enough for life to have had a chance to emerge.
Enceladus is small, only about 500 kilometres across, a moon you could lose among Saturn’s dozens. It is…
Israeli study unlocks 4,000 years of climate change and human adaptation
Cylinders of ancient mud drilled from the Carmel Coast in northern Israel have revealed how ancient human societies…
In late 2023, Voyager 1 began sending unreadable data from interstellar space. NASA engineers eventually traced the fault to corrupted memory in one of the probe’s computers, rewrote part of its 46-year-old software, transmitted the fix across more than 24 billion kilometres, and waited roughly 45 hours for confirmation that the patch had worked.
In late 2023, Voyager 1 stopped making sense. The spacecraft was still transmitting from interstellar space, but the…
Unusual creatures are more appealing: What guppies teach us about evolution | Science
Females prefer to mate with unusual males. At least, that’s the case among guppies, small fish from South…
‘It’s Russian roulette’: alarm as Europe backs critical minerals mines in water-stressed regions | Mining
The European Commission plans to rewrite the EU’s flagship water protection law to speed up the development of…
Scientists discover remnants of Jellyfish Nebula’s ‘sibling’ supernova
Millions of years ago two massive stars circled each other in a cosmic dance. Then one of the…