For over two centuries, people everywhere have been dependent on fossil fuels as a concentrated source of energy. Convenient, energy-dense molecules packed with the fruits of photosynthesis over hundreds of millions of years have been put to use by our ...
On November 13th, CAPSTONE will arrive at the Moon and be the first spacecraft to join a novel, elongated orbit to aid NASA’s Artemis missions. The first CubeSat to reach and function on the Moon will be the 55-pound, Cislunar ...
Approximately 550 million years ago, at the end of the Ediacaran Period, the majority of species on Earth died out due to a decline in worldwide oxygen supply, according to a new study by geobiologists at Virginia Tech. This early ...
While Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a good job of explaining planetary and stellar gravity, its applicability is less clear on smaller scales. Gravity affects everything equally because everything has it. Despite being the most ubiquitous of the ...
A winery-dotted valley to the east of San Francisco holds one of the best prospects for a sustainable energy future. Here at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is where you’ll find the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The same physics ...
Spatial crowding is a typical factor that plays a role in the identification of items in the periphery of the visual field. This phenomenon occurs when one item is crowded amid other things in space. In order to accurately evaluate ...
An exciting new era has begun in the quest for Earth-sized planets orbiting neighboring stars, which are extremely challenging to discover given their tiny size, with the “first light” of new planet-hunting equipment at W. M. Keck Observatory. The Keck ...
The “Cone Nebula” is depicted in breathtaking clarity in an image that was just made public. Approximately 2,500 lightyears separate us from it. The dramatic new view of the nebula shown at the end of the video, showcases its dark ...
Australian Outback rocks dated at 3.5 billion years could shed light on the question of whether or not life ever existed on Mars. Only ancient bacteria, claim scientists who have studied Australian rocks. If the Nasa Perseverance rover is exploring ...
What about these new asteroids known as ‘Planet Killers’? Astronomers have detected three asteroids near Earth. Two of them are a potential threat as ‘planet killer’ because of their hazardous and large size, but the good part is that they ...