Category: Science
Our morning sky presents a good demonstration that the planets do indeed move, and that they all don’t move at the same rate, nor always in the same direction. …
There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and …
SKYGUIDE: This map represents the night sky as it appears over Maine during April. The stars are shown as they appear at 10:30 pm early in the month, at …
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images show the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7, 2022, when the spacecraft …
Commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space was allowed to launch the world’s first entirely private mission to the International Space Station in April, but only after a critical test of …
One truism of the natural world is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. April nights are no exception. March’s abundance of planetary conjunctions continues …
Scientific publication for the weekend With Mathilde Fontes, Editor-in-Chief of The Scientific Journal Epsilon And the Look at the sky today because The NASA astronomers They just announced that …
There are 118 items on the periodIc table, and you might think we are made up of many of them. But that’s not the case; the complex systems that …
Scott Johnson March 26th, 2022 The Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on the morning of March 18, 2022. Credit: Scott Johnson/Spaceflight …
An obscure species of wild grass contains “blockbuster” disease resistance that can be cross bred into wheat to give immunity against one of the deadliest crop pathogens. A collaborative …
China’s Venus mission might really happen as the Chinese government shows intent in expanding its planetary exploration efforts. (Photo: Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)This photo taken on November …
Newswise — Irvine, Calif., March 24, 2022 — The Arctic is warming along with the rest of the planet, and as this is happening, its permafrost – perennially frozen …