Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild plants in Eurasia. According to a new international study published in Plant Disease, the ancestors of modern…
Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed via collisions in the main belt; however, smaller ones, such as near-Earth binaries…
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BEIJING — A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled a high-resolution atlas detailing the global distribution of lunar surface chemistry, a significant advance that fills a critical data gap in the geological study of…
SpaceX’s 30th launch of 2026 is in the books.
One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (March 10) at 12:19 a.m. EDT (0419 GMT), carrying the 15,000-pound (6,800-kilogram)…
An artist’s impression of an asteroid that orbits closer to the sun than the earth’s orbit, showing its dark side.
| Photo Credit: NOIRLab/J. da Silva
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Can you make out any features on the Moon’s surface tonight? There’s plenty to see, so here’s what to look for when you look up.
As of Tuesday, March…
A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about Earth’s most extreme ice ages. Using numerical geochemical models, the team showed that…
