More than four decades after its launching, NASA's famed spacecraft Voyager 2 made a milestone move into interstellar space -- beyond the realm of the sun's ...
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As the Voyager 2 makes history by entering interstellar space, RT looks back at some of the spacecraft's finest moments in its incredible 41-year-long mission.
Scientists discover massive microbe ecosystem living beneath the Earth’s surfaceMassive ‘deep life’ study reveals billions of tonnes of microbes living far beneath Earth’s surface | The IndependentHomeHomeShapeleftrightShapeSocial/FacebookSocial/TwitterShape
Billions of tonnes of tiny creatures are thriving far beneath the planet's surface, according to a major study of “deep life” living in a habitat nearly twice the size of ...
Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep 'dark biosphere' of ...
A study has taken a census of life in the “deep biosphere” beneath the Earth's surface. Among the finds are bizarre creatures that can survive at record depths, ...
It's always worth being reminded that, in terms of sheer numbers and even mass, humanity is not the dominant form of life on Earth. Putting aside the somewhat ...
Scientists have drilled the seabed and sampled microorganisms in the subsurface to confirm that the Earth's pristine depths are home to a whole new world ...
Two Russian crew members on board the International Space Station are going on a spacewalk to investigate a mysterious hole that popped up in a visiting ...
MOSCOW — Two Russian cosmonauts were preparing to venture outside the International Space Station Tuesday to inspect a section where a mysterious leak ...
Following an epic 20-year-long excavation in South Africa, researchers have finally recovered and cleaned the nearly-complete skeleton of an ancient human ...
TheTribune: LONDON: Human ancestors became efficient upright walkers while they were still substantially tree dwelling, analysis of the world''s most complete ...
A lone spacecraft is hovering 12 miles above the surface of a tiny asteroid millions of miles away, closely examining its surface. And it just sent back its first ...
It didn't take long for NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to glean valuable insights from the asteroid Bennu. The vessel has helped scientists discover water trapped ...
There's a cool space doubleheader this week: In addition to comet 46P/Wirtanen, the often spectacular Geminid meteor shower will also make its annual ...
We on Earth get to take in the wonder of a meteor shower typically when our planet passes through the trail of a comet. The bits of rock and debris burn up when ...
Anyone who has tried to whisper sweet nothings into their lover's ear while standing on a noisy street corner can understand the plight of the túngara frog.
WASHINGTON (AP) — City frogs and rainforest frogs don't sing the same tune, researchers have found. A study released Monday examined why Panama's tiny ...
Like humans, frogs love a good tune—though our amphibious friends have a lot more at stake when they croon. The quality of their mating call helps determine ...
This incredible picture shows a huge meteor hurtling to earth during the annual Geminid meteor shower. Taken from the Mojave Desert area near Victorville under a very dark and mostly clear sky, Wally Pacholka captured this amazing picture during the annual cosmic fireworks show.Wally Pacholka/Barcroft Media/Getty Images
The skies are set to light up for the holidays this week as comet Wirtanen swoops past Earth, and the Geminid meteor shower makes its annual appearance.
Stargazers are in for a treat this week with both the dazzling Geminid meteor shower and a nearby comet lighting up the night sky. Comet 46P/Wirtanen is set to ...
In 2016 and 2017, disaster struck the world's largest living structure: back-to-back heat waves caused half of all corals on the 1400-mile-long Great Barrier Reef ...
The Great Barrier Reef has been hit hard by climate change. As waters warm, the higher ocean temperatures force the coral to expel the algae that lives inside of ...
The Great Barrier Reef fared better during an oceanic heat wave last year than during sizzling weather a year earlier that caused hundreds of miles of corals to ...
Trends in sea ice thickness/volume are another important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize the ocean and sea ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang and Rothrock, 2003), to visualize September sea ice thickness and volume from 1979 to 2018. Updated through September 2018. (Zach Labe)zack labe
Over the past three decades of global warming, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95 percent, according the National Oceanic ...
After what can only be described as an attempt to sandbag the official launch schedule, NASA administrator James Bridenstine remains alone in his public ...
The first, uncrewed, test of the craft was due for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 7, NASA - but this has now been pushed back until January ...
CAPE CANAVERAL – A SpaceX delivery full of Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, following a slight delay caused by a ...
After last year's dry, hot winter, California's snowpack is getting an early boost from a series of powerful storms that have blanketed the Sierra Nevada, pushing ...
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has been silent since June 10, a casualty of a mega-dust storm. But the robot's handlers haven't given up yet on Opportunity, ...
Curtis Deutsch recently released a study in the journal Science that is the stuff of global warming nightmares, or at least a major motion picture about a dystopian ...
On December 1, 2018, NASA's InSight lander captured a haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the Martian wind, estimated to be blowing between 10 ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The sounds of wind on Mars were captured for the first time by NASA's InSight spacecraft, which landed on the Red Planet last month.
On November 26, NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on Mars.
Late last week, China launched an ambitious mission that will send a lander and rover to the far side of the Moon. This Chang'e-4 spacecraft represents a ...
We've landed more than a dozen people on the moon, sent countless rovers and orbiters to survey it, yet a full half of our closest solar system neighbor remains ...
The Chang'e 4 spacecraft has successfully made a scheduled trajectory correction manoeuvre (TCM) as it continues its journey to the Moon and eventual ...
China's trying to make history by becoming the first to land a spacecraft safely on the Moon's far side early in the new year. If it gets there safely, investigative ...
In a bid to become the world leader in the space race, China launched the Chang'e-4 probe to the dark side of the moon on December 7. It should be noted that ...
Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and ...
Previously dormant glaciers storing vast quantities of water are “waking up” and have begun to melt even in the world's harshest and remote environments.
A team of scientists from NASA and British Antarctic Survey (BAS), describes how analysis of 53 ice cores collected from across Antarctica reveals snowfall ...
While East Antarctica has the potential to reshape coastlines around the world through sea level rise, scientists have long considered it more stable than West ...
Keep tabs on endangered animals can be difficult, especially if they're being actively poached by hunters who don't care about the law. The plight of ...
Somewhere between a viral fake story about Harvard researchers suggesting we 'dim the sun', and a major, government-funded report laying out how we might ...
Harvard scientists will attempt to replicate the climate-cooling effect of volcanic eruptions with a world-first solar geoengineering experiment set for early 2019.
An intense reaction occurs after water is injected into molten rock. Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo. Not *content* with just watching the stuff explode out of ...
To investigate the physics of interactions between lava and water, researchers from the University at Buffalo have conducted experiments on lab-made lava ...
Quantum entanglement in a macroscopic mechanical system has been demonstrated by physicists in Austria and the Netherlands, who confirmed that their ...
A recent study by NASA found that sea ice is growing faster during the winter months today than it did decades ago. This increased growth of sea ice has helped ...
The small object Ultima Thule swims amid a sea of distant stars in a new photo captured by NASA's approaching New Horizons around midnight EST (0500 ...
The project has spent more than a decade hurtling through the Solar System since it launched on January 19, 2006 from Cape Canaveral and passed Pluto in ...
NASA's New Horizons probe is getting set for the farthest-out flyby in history, and you can send some words of encouragement to help the spacecraft get across ...
An analysis from Indiana University researchers has found that half the people pursuing scientific careers at institutions of higher education will depart the field ...
Half of the people pursuing careers as scientists at higher education institutions will drop out of the field after five years, according to a new analysis from ...
An analysis from Indiana University researchers has found that half the people pursuing scientific careers at institutions of higher education will depart the field ...
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If collisions between small projectiles -- protons (p), deuterons (d), and helium-3 nuclei (3He) -- and gold nuclei (Au) create tiny hot spots of quark-gluon plasma, the pattern of particles picked up by the detector should retain some 'memory' of each projectile's initial shape. Measurements from the PHENIX experiment match these predictions with very strong correlations between the initial geometry and the final flow patterns. Credit: Javier Orjuela Koop, University of Colorado, Boulder
Nuclear physicists analyzing data from the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science ...
A study of hurricane-hit areas of the United States has revealed a trend of larger homes being built to replace smaller ones in the years following a storm.
NASA's Silvano Colombano questions common assumptions in search for extraterrestrial life, saying space aliens could be very different from human beings.
The global average sea level has risen about 7 inches since 1900. For perspective, sea level rise has averaged about the thickness of two pennies every year.
Scientists have discovered that the increased amount of snow on Antarctica has helped offset rates of twentieth-century global sea-level rise by a third.
Ozone layer depletion has increased snowfall over Antarctica in recent decades, partially mitigating the ongoing loss of the continent's ice sheet mass, new ...
It is the middle of the 2040s. After years of warning, scientists have just confirmed that the tipping point for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been triggered.
New research has given scientists a big clue about how catnip produces its intoxicating chemical. And they believe that catnip, once reserved for cats, could one ...
Catnip is the focus of a study published Monday in "Nature Chemical Biology." Scientists discovered that the unique chemical process that results in intoxicated ...
Researchers have created tiny droplets of the ultra-hot matter that once filled the early universe, forming three distinct shapes and sizes: circles, ellipses and ...
As private sector rocket manufacturers build excitement around their efforts to commercialize space, it's easy to lose sight of the dozens of companies working to ...
Instrumentation at Beamline 10.0.1 at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source was used to grow and study ultrathin samples of an exotic material known as sodium bismuthide. Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab
NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this 12.5-mile-across close-up of the central peak of the 99-mile-wide Urvara impact crater on Ceres. The remarkable 6,500-foot central ridge is made from materials uplifted from depth, arising from terrains enriched with products of rock-water interactions, such as carbonates. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
A team led by Southwest Research Institute has concluded that the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is rich in organic matter. Data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...
Astronomers have concluded that the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is rich in organic matter. Data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft indicate that Ceres's surface ...
A dwarf planet in our solar system is rich in organic matter, a Nasa spacecraft has shown. Ceres is like a "chemical factory" full of the same ingredients that ...
A team led by Southwest Research Institute has concluded that the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is rich in organic matter. Data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...
A research team at Osaka University created a system that uses a convolutional neural network to learn the features distinguishing different cancer cells, based ...
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The curved left forearms bones of the StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton shown with superior toward the top of the image. The ulna (left) is near-lateral view and radius (right) is in anterior view. Credit: Bilateral Asymmetry of the Forearm Bones as Possible Evidence of Antemortem Trauma in the StW 573 Australopithecus Skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2 (South Africa),
Several teams of researchers have announced that the skeletal remains of a hominin believed to have lived approximately 3.67 million years ago represent a ...
The analysis of the world's most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor, conducted by a research collaboration involving the University of Liverpool, ...
Scanning tunnelling microscope installed in a helium cooling device seen from below (with the sample stage removed). The mechanism for positioning the microscope tip above the sample surface is visible (center of image). Credit: Simon Diesch
Generally speaking, magnetism and the lossless flow of electrical current ("superconductivity") are competing phenomena that cannot coexist in the same ...
Being in space can have weird and sometimes harmful effects on the human body, and we'll have to work through those issues if we're to make it out to Mars ...
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship approaches the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA. A commercial supply ship owned ...
A new study analyzing the DNA of nearly 350000 people has pinpointed an array of genes linked to particular hair colors, including eight genes associated with ...
Flame-haired figures from Mary Queen of Scots and Rob Roy MacGregor to football boss Alex McLeish have eight additional genes to explain their hair colour, ...
Elon Musk could use metal hot structures for rocket re-entry. This is a decades old concept. I do not think it has been used in flight since the early X-plane ...
The Chandra Observatory has discovered a white dwarf star emitting supersoft X-rays, calling into question conventional wisdom about how X-rays are ...
Astronomers have spotted an X-ray outburst from a white dwarf in the Small Magellanic Cloud some 200,000 light years away that indicates the compact star is ...
This stunning spiral galaxy is Messier 100 in the constellation Coma Berenices, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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Space does not damage a major part of the immune system, study saysSpace travel does not damage a major part of the human immune system, new study says | The IndependentHomeHomeShapeleftrightShapeSocial/FacebookSocial/Twitter
Space flight does not have a detrimental effect on a major part of the human immune system, according to new research which may alter how astronauts ...
Iridescence is responsible for some of the most striking visual displays in the animal kingdom. Now, thanks to a new study of feathers from almost 100 modern ...
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four giant outer planets in the solar system. It's NASA's longest-running mission and is now the second ...
