NASA released a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope during the keynote address Tuesday at the SWSX Conference in Texas. The telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death. (March 14)
We’ve all seen sci-fi movies that show people traveling across deep space at a moment’s notice. Usually, those spaceships make use of a jump to lightspeed, hyperspace or even some way of jumping across space with ease. Well now, a team of scientists from the UK has outlined a way to create wormholes that might let us one day hop across the cosmos in this way.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light. ikonacolor/iStock via Getty Images Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why does time change when traveling close to the speed of light? – Timothy, age 11, Shoreview, Minnesota Imagine you’re in a car driving across the country watching the landscape. A tree in the distance gets closer to your car, passes right by you, t
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LONDON (Reuters) -Data from the early days of the COVID pandemic, briefly uploaded to a database by Chinese scientists, gives information on its origins, including suggesting a role for raccoon dogs in the coronavirus reaching humans, international researchers said. The virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, with many suspecting a live animal market to be involved, before spreading round the world and killing nearly 7 million people to date. International researchers published a pre-print report based on their interpretation of the data on Monday, after leaks of their findings in the media last week and a meeting with the World Health Organization involving both the Chinese and international scientists.
Last fall, NASA’s DART spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos, a small asteroid some 7 million miles away, in an unprecedented attempt to change the orbit of a natural body in space. Now, two teams of astronomers have released images of the collision’s aftermath taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
The Baikonur base in Kazakhstan was the cradle of the Soviet space program — and is now the center of a feud the Kremlin would rather forget.
Scientists have spotted a relict glacier on Mars, near the equator—far from the parts of the planet where water ice is known to exist today. While this leftover glacial structure may not contain any water now, the fact that it exists where it does suggests that water ice had a more expansive footprint in the Red Planet more recently than previously believed.
Researchers just announced the discovery of the nucleobase uracil—one of the building blocks of RNA—in a sample from the asteroid Ryugu. Here's what it means.
A detailed analysis of hitherto unseen genetic data taken from the Wuhan wet market at the start of the pandemic shows that up to 13 different species of live animals were being sold, according to a preprint published late on Monday night.
First hibernation studies with human subjects could be feasible within a decade, a European Space Agency (ESA) researcher thinks.
NASA reported that the Sun had a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that blasted a large mass of solar debris from the center of the system, with some debris hitting Earth.
A new NASA eclipse map shows where and when the annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023, and the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be visible.
Marine scientists with decades of experience monitoring coastal waters of Brevard County had no clue what we were looking at.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the galaxy GS-9209 had its star-forming power abruptly “quenched” by mysterious forces after millions of years of productivity.
NASA engineers are making progress on the agency’s Moon rover, which could begin its lunar adventure on the rocky satellite sometime in the mid 2020s.
A 200-foot asteroid discovered in February is expected to fly past Earth at about half the distance of the moon on Saturday, posing no threat to the planet, this time.
The Indian Space Research Organization is preparing to launch 36 internet satellites for OneWeb, as the British company seeks to complete its first constellation and enable global-wide service. It’s one of several important launches planned for the coming week.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team released even more dazzling new images of star-studded clusters light-years away from Earth, including Messier 14 and Messier 7.
Variety interviewed William Shatner for his new life-spanning documentary 'You Can Call Me Bill.'
The Microsoft co-founder says generative AI is the most important technological advance in 40 years
