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The high sensitivity of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located near Khodad village, 80 km north of Pune, made detection of these 'fossil lobes' possible through their low radio-frequency radiation. Optical photograph of the cluster of ...

The model accounts for an often-overlooked narrow ocean current along the Antarctic coast and simulates how rapidly flowing freshwater, melted from the ice shelves, can trap dense warm ocean water at the base of the ice, causing it to warm and melt even ...

One of America's premier comet hunters, Donald Machholz, died on August 9th. According to his wife, Michele, he passed away unexpectedly and swiftly from COVID-19 early that morning. Born in 1952 in Portsmouth, Virginia, Don became interested in ...

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is poised to launch a new era of U.S. lunar exploration this month. You can learn the science behind the flight (and watch its towering rocket head to the launch pad) in a series of webcasts next week.

Case in point: Hubble delivered a view of the area around Herbig-Haro object HH 505 in the Orion Nebula. It's an image awash in color and curves, like an intense, abstract watercolor painting. The European Space Agency described it as a "celestial ...

Join the Mason County District Library staff at the Ludington State Park for pre-meteor shower activities. The group will be joined by park interpreter Alan Wernette for a guided tour through the night sky. Bring flashlights.

Dermatologist Adeline Kikam on coping with conditions that can develop in rising temperatures.

The scientists claimed it was the oldest fossil remnant of a radio galaxy found till date. They added that such fossils contained information of how radio galaxies influenced the course of evolution of our universe. Gopal Krishna ...

Date: August 12, 2022; Source: University of California - Berkeley; Summary: Why are Neptune-sized planets rare among exoplanets discovered to date? A 'warm Neptune' recently found by astronomers around a bright blue A-type star provides a clue.

New research highlights a troubling problem with concepts of a cyclical universe that experiences infinitely alternating periods of rapid expansion and contraction, known as 'bouncing universe' models. These bouncing universe models suggest the ...

Skin healing processes and spacewalk preparations filled the work schedule aboard the International Space Station on Friday. The Expedition 67 crew members are also readying a U.S. space freighter for its return to Earth next week.

Researchers at Durham University concluded that if global greenhouse emissions remain high, the melting East Antarctica Ice Sheet (EAIS) could cause nearly half a meter of sea-level rise by 2100. Their analysis was published in the scientific journal ...

Women have been earning PhDs in astronomy since 1893, and their professional lives and research topics have been many and varied — there is no single 'women in astronomy' experience. In The Sky Is for Everyone, astronomers Virginia Trimble and David ...

The scientists said Jakapil marks a first-of-its-kind discovery of an armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous in South America. Image: Jakapil kaniukura. Holotype of Jakapil kaniukura's postcranial bones.via Nature.com. Link copied.

Astronomers who claim to have spotted an interstellar meteor hitting Earth are trying to raise $1.6 million to mount an expedition to search for fragments that may remain on the sea floor north of Papua New Guinea. But the claim – which was endorsed by ...

These infrared images of the deep universe revealed a marvelous landscape of stars, nebulae, galaxies, and countless other bizarre and wonderful cosmic phenomena. Like most everyone else on the planet with an internet connection ...

supermoon while it was setting behind the St. Peter's Dome and Basilica in Rome, Italy," Masi wrote in a statement. (You can see the picture just above.).

The Perseid meteor shower peaks today with a still nearly Full Super Moon in the sky, which will make viewing all but the brightest fireballs difficult. For those at mid-northern latitudes or higher, the radiant in Perseus is always or nearly always above ...

Giant meteorite impacts: View of Earth from space focused on Australia. A new study boosts the claim that giant meteorite impacts created Earth's continents billions of years ago. Western Australia was the site of the study, in a place known to be an old ...

Health service chiefs have promised some 7,000 extra beds in England to tackle increased demands.