NASA’s latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect asteroids’ orbital paths and their potential for impacting Earth, and the origins of life in the solar system.
READ MORENew data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30-m telescope have been used to create one of the largest high-resolution mosaics of a star formation region produced so far at millimeter wavelengths.
READ MOREThe minute-long video purports to show a space craft eerily hovering in the distance over Lake Norman near Charlotte, North Carolina. And while buzz on the video swings from claims of hoaxing to apparent belief, one iconic airship has claimed responsibility: the Goodyear Blimp
READ MOREBy all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid 3D material.
READ MOREScientists working on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet’s polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth.
READ MORERegardless of whether your mouth is moving right now, you are talking to yourself.
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