Astronomers Discover Rare ‘Mega-Earth’ Exoplanet: Gliese 523b - Sci.News
Gliese 523b (GJ 523b) is a young, ultra-dense planet that orbits almost perpendicular to its star’s spin, according to...
A PhD student in Sydney just found a “Rosetta Stone” for years of unexplained radio bursts from the Milky Way: a dead star is stripping material from its companion in a 1.4-hour orbit, giving astronomers their clearest look yet at what produces at least some of t - Space Daily
ASKAP J1745−5051 links a 1.34497-hour radio pulse to an accreting white dwarf binary, giving astronomers a reference c...
Common Supplements Show Antibiotic-Like Benefits Against Severe Gum Disease - SciTechDaily
A study suggests that combining the two compounds with conventional treatment could reduce the need for antibiotics....
China is about to launch an ambitious moon mission to hunt for ice in one of the solar system’s coldest places - NBC News
China is poised to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in search of frozen w...
68 Strange Things Happening On Earth That Look Almost Too Incredible To Be Real (New Pics) - Bored Panda
No matter how well-read or well-traveled you are, you will always learn something new about the world. Even in this day ...
Hidden Structures in Clouds May Solve a Longstanding Mystery About Rainfall - ScienceAlert
It's well known that where there's smoke there's fire, but did you know that where there's rain there's ice? Or so the c...
What happens when a galaxy's supermassive black hole turns off? These dying radio galaxies could show us - Space
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unknown population of galaxies with fading radio jets....
Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging - Ars Technica
Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features....
The Biggest Known Galaxy Is 1.7 Million Light-Years, And We Can't Comprehend The Scale - ScienceAlert
The Universe can pull some wild monkeyshines, especially when it comes to scale....
Greenwich moon time? The high-stakes race to set lunar clocks - Financial Times
World powers gather to decide how to deal with potential threat to colonising Earth’s nearest celestial neighbour...
New NASA Pictures Reveal SpaceX Crash's Devastation On The Moon's Magnificent Desolation - Jalopnik
The more and more rockets humanity launches, the more and more likely we are to litter the lunar surface....
How an accidental discovery by underconstruction Telescope in Chile captured one of Astronomy’s missing l - The Times of India
Tech News News: An unfinished, custom-built observatory in Chile has unexpectedly solved one of puzzles astrophysics str...
Wild New Paper Claims Human Brain Doesn’t Produce Consciousness - Yahoo
"Nothing in science explains how three pounds of matter... can love, hate, dream, imagine, fear or hope for its future."...
My Wife Just Told Me She Wants to Use Donor Sperm for Our Baby. Her Reason Is Extremely Hurtful. - Slate Magazine
Does she have a point?...
LHC collisions reveal oxygen and neon's shifting nuclear geometry - Phys.org
Many people are aware that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes tiny subatomic particles together at nearly t...
Jupiter pulls so hard on Io that the moon’s solid ground rises and falls by as much as 100 metres every orbit — a tide in rock the height of a 30-storey building, and the repeated flexing powers the most volcanically active world in the Solar System - Space Daily
Io's ground can move by as much as 100 metres as Jupiter's changing tide flexes the moon, converting orbital energy into...
NASA plans to send a working nuclear reactor toward Mars in late 2028. Space Reactor-1 Freedom will split uranium atoms in deep space to generate electricity for its engines — the first test of a technology NASA hopes will eventually help power human missi - Space Daily
SR-1 Freedom would start a 20-kilowatt-electric HALEU reactor after Earth escape, power a Hall thruster and deliver thre...
Scientists Recreate the Melting ‘Diamond Rain’ of Neptune and Uranus. It May Help Fusion Power - Gizmodo
A U.S. government lab has recreated the truly alien conditions that melt diamonds deep inside ice giant planets—and th...
'Rainbow-on-a-chip' could help unlock 6G networks and precision timing for quantum technologies - Phys.org
Loughborough University physicists and an international team have demonstrated that a grain-of-rice-sized microchip can ...
Earth’s atmosphere does not end anywhere near the edge of space: a ghostly hydrogen cloud called the geocorona stretches 630,000 kilometres out — far enough to envelop the Moon and make every lunar mission, technically, a journey through the outermo - Space Daily
SOHO traced Earth's neutral-hydrogen geocorona beyond the Moon, but its density at lunar distance is only about 0.2 atom...
Interplanetary spacecraft capture a coronal mass ejection component hidden from Earth - Phys.org
During a coronal mass ejection (CME), the sun hurls billions of tons of magnetized plasma into space. These eruptions ar...
NASA’s newest planet discovery is unlike anything seen before - geekspin
When you think about the phrase "Mega-Earth," your mind probably jumps straight to a sci-fi blockbuster movie poster or ...
The Moon is rusting even though it has no air and almost no liquid water — and the leading explanation is that oxygen escaping Earth rides our magnetic tail 385,000 kilometres into space during the few days each month when the solar wind is blocked - Space Daily
Chandrayaan-1 found hematite near the lunar poles. Orbital patterns and laboratory tests point to oxygen ions escaping E...
Scientists Revisited a Forest Experiment That Was Forgotten for 30 Years. What They Found Was Astounding - SciTechDaily
A decades-old experiment in Victoria’s mountain ash forests is challenging assumptions about the trade-offs between ti...