RUSSIA: A Russian spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) had to be aborted this week due to a problem with cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev’s spacesuit. On Wednesday, August 17, Artemyev and co-pilot Denis Matveev were engaged in a six-and-a-half-hour sp…
It is the most abundant stuff in the universe, holding together stars and galaxies, but we've never seen or even proven it exists. Ben Knight goes deep under...
A giant 92 foot asteroid named Asteroid 2020 QW3 is rushing towards Earth. Will this asteroid crash on Earth tomorrow, August 22, 2022? Know what NASA said.
Just over 250 million years ago, during the end of the Permian period, and start of the Triassic, reptiles' rates of evolution and diversity started exploding, leading to a dizzying variety of abilities, body plans, and traits
Discovery and validation of genetic factors for multifactorial and polygenic disorders like stroke are needed to make progress in precision medicine. Although some traditional risk factors for stroke have been identified, they do not fully explain the pathoph…
Scientists at Florida Atlantic University found that epaulette sharks are capable of walking on land with their fins. The researchers stated that the features were developed as a result of challenging environmental conditions. These sharks use their paddle-sh…
Harvard researchers find rapid evolution of reptiles was triggered by nearly 60 million years of global warming and climate change. Researchers can explore the impact of environmental crises on organismal evolution by studying climate change-induced mass exti…
"The very first results from the James Webb Space Telescope seem to indicate that massive, luminous galaxies had already formed within the first 250 million years after the Big Bang," reports Sky and Telescope.
"If confirmed, this would seriously challenge …
How do we know that time exists?Our entire lives are regulated by the clocks, but what they measure is less certain. How can we be sure that time really
TOKYO, Aug 21 — Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year...
Once we've overcome all the challenges involved in getting to Mars, we'll then have to figure out how to make life sustainable there – and growing and cultivating crops is going to be a major part of that.
This illustration provided by J.J. Giraldo depicts the 16-meter (52-foot) giant shark Otodus preying on the 8-meter (26-foot) Balaenoptera whale in the
Mark Watney can keep his potatoes. Real astronauts should grow alfalfa. That’s the finding of a newly published study out of Iowa State University, which tested the viability of making Martian regolith suitable for growing food. The two major insights from th…
The night of January 14, 2022, was a terrifying one for the world’s volcanologists. “That’s the first time we’ve ever seen a country go dark in the aftermath of
There’s more than one way to produce oxygen on Mars. Or at least there is now. After the success of the MOXIE experiment that rode along with Perseverance to the red planet in 2021, another idea to produce one of the most useful gases in the universe has been…