Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system that likely contain or previously contained ice and could have been one route for delivering water to Earth, ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 10, 2024
1
497
After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity.
Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2023
4
658
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
Space Exploration
Jan 7, 2023
1
2386
A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth sheds new light on the formation of the East Coast of the United States—a "passive margin," in geologic terms—during the breakup of the supercontinent ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2023
0
232
Imperial researchers have observed magma taking an unexpected route beneath volcanoes, shedding light on the processes behind eruptions.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2023
0
233
The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth's atmosphere wasn't photo bombing it all the time.
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2023
0
379
Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it.
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2024
44
277
NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.
Planetary Sciences
Apr 27, 2024
1
168
Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 chemically similar metals, which got their name because they typically occur at low concentrations (between 0.5 and 67 parts per million) within Earth's crust. Because they are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 28, 2023
0
245
In a historic achievement, University of Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for practical applications.
Condensed Matter
Mar 8, 2023
4
8072
