If you have teenagers — or were once a teenager yourself — you’ve probably experienced this: Your kid’s jeans fit perfectly in September, but by December they’re showing ankle. The adolescent growth spurt can feel astonishingly fast, with…
Astronomers have found a strange world outside the solar system that is ripe for science fiction — but it’s all real.
The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon…
Deep inside stars, giant planets, and even Earth’s core, matter exists in a strange in-between state—neither solid nor fully plasma. Known as warm dense matter, this extreme form of matter shapes how planets generate magnetic fields and how…
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Washington, DC [US], December 20 (ANI/WAM): The US space agency NASA has lost contact with the Mars probe “Maven”. Work is underway to re-establish contact, a NASA spokeswoman told the German news agency DPA.
No regular data had been received for…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites network (GOES) captured a number of natural phenomena high above Earth this year, including unusual snow events, wildfires, volcanoes and…
As Jupiter nears opposition, its moons closely follow their shadows during transits. Tonight, Io demonstrates.
Io and its shadow cross Jupiter…
As the world prepares for long-term human missions to the Moon and Mars, researchers from Sunway University and Monash University Malaysia have unveiled an innovative material designed to protect pharmaceuticals from…