NASA’s Psyche Mission Delivers Mars Flyby Data, Time-lapse Video
Peppered by Mars neutrons The gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, which will help scientists determine the chemical elements that…
RNA can form large 3D structures, suggesting a new role for the molecule in the origin of life on Earth
Scientists long thought that when RNA kick-started life on Earth 4 billion years ago, it could form only…
Biodiversity fears as human-bred hybrid fish integrate into Philippines lake | Invasive species
Escaped ornamental aquarium fish have integrated into a local ecosystem in the Philippines, but scientists say they may…
US Approves Gigantic Satellite Mirror That Will Illuminate the Earth at Night
Screengrab from ‘The Truman Show’ when Christof (played by Ed Harris) turns the moon into a searchlight. Picture…
The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson
Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing proton…
Earth’s largest particle accelerator opens new window into the early universe just after the Big Bang: ‘A culmination of a decades-long quest’
After more than two decades of searching, scientists have finally observed a phenomenon in a hot and dense…
Mexico earthquake shakes Guatemala and El Salvador
A powerful earthquake in southern Mexico shook nearby countries Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, with the US…
Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought
Terraforming is the process of reshaping a planet or moon so it can support humans and other Earth-like…
Anatoli Bugorski survived a proton beam to the head
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the…
Scientists are Teaching Shrimp to Eat in Microgravity for Future Moon Bases
As far as we know, food doesn’t exist naturally in space. We have to bring it with us…
Europe’s most effective tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions ‘risks being weakened’ | Emissions trading
Europe’s most effective method of cutting dangerous planet-heating gases risks being weakened after the European Commission proposed an…
The Sky Today on Friday, July 17: The Moon skims south of Venus
Back to Article List The crescent Moon slides south of Venus this afternoon and stands side by side…