The moon is shown during a full lunar eclipse, Sunday, May 15, 2022, near Moscow, Idaho, with the reddish color caused by it passing into the shadow of the Earth. A Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North America in the predawn hours -- the farther west, the better...
Utilizing old DNA, consisting of examples of human remains roughly 45,000 years, has shed light on a previously unknown facet of human development. Dr. Yassine Souilmi, Team Leader at the College of Adelaide's Australian Center for Old DNA, co-led the recent research study released in Nature Ecology and Development. "It was extensively thought the genes of...
Three near-Earth asteroids -- one potentially hazardous -- were found using a high-tech instrument at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. On Monday, an international group of astronomers reported the finding of a giant asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, developing a slight possibility far in the future of a disastrous accident. The 1.5-kilometre-...
The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster has been used to spot a tiny galaxy beyond it. Credit: NASA. The James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed the tiniest galaxy outside our regional world-- and it is a thousand times much less huge than the Milky Way. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found the tiniest galaxy...
his is an artist's impression of two neutron stars colliding. The smashup between two dense stellar remnants unleashes the energy of 1,000 standard stellar nova explosions. In the aftermath of the collision a blowtorch jet of radiation is ejected at nearly the speed of light. The jet is directed along a narrow beam confined...
Planet Mars stock photo. Credit: iStock Ancient microbes on Mars likely triggered a climate change that led to their own demise, a report from Space.com explains. The study was published in Nature Astronomy, and it details how simple microbes that fed on hydrogen and excreted methane were likely abundant on Mars approximately 3.7 billion years back....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule, with a multinational crew of four astronauts, lifts off from Launch Complex 39-A Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., beginning a five-month mission to the International Space Station. Credit: AP Photo/John Raoux) For the first time in two decades,...
An image from the super computer simulation of the creation of the Moon. Credit: Durham University Researchers from Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology used the most precise supercomputer simulations ever, revealing an alternative for how the Moon formed 4.5 billion years ago. It showed that a colossal impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body...
RIKEN physicists have created an LED that emits in a narrow region in the far ultraviolet that is safe for humans but deadly for viruses and bacteria. Credit: RIKEN RIKEN physicists have engineered an exceptionally efficient LED that is lethal to microorganisms and viruses while being safe for humans. Someday it may help nations overcome...
The James Webb image of SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI James Webb first Full-color images help astronomers make a new discovery. James Webb's discovery is yet to give us not just a new insight but also a treasure trove of data held by every image it has released. The first full-color James Webb image,...
