China's biggest moon challenge: returning to Earth China's lunar probe, Chang'e-5, will be launched around 2017 and its mission to collect samples from the moon and return to earth is the most challenging yet, according to Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program. Read more...
Geologists Find Buried Volcano Inside Panmure Basin Geologists have found a buried volcano inside Panmure Basin, which is the mouth of a volcano that erupted about 28,000 years ago. It is extremely rare for two eruptions to have occurred at the same site in the Auckland Volcanic Field. The discover...
The complete works of one of history's greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online.
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A new simulation method recently developed by Stanford astrophysicist Marcelo Alvarez and Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship student Patrick Ho spurns complexity to make headway in understanding the early universe's structure formation. Collapsing a complicated trajectory int...
An Extraordinary Celestial Spiral with a Twist An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving the orbital shape of binary stars that have orbital periods too long to be directly measur...
NASA satellite data and a new modelling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the st...
Amazon forest 'shaped by pre-Columbian indigenous peoples' Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Amazon before the arrival of European colonisers planted a vast number of trees, a new study argues. They played an important role in the current composition of the forest, says the study. Researche...
There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and even the sudden uplifting or sinking of the ground are all visible results of restlessness far below, but according to research by Arizona State Univer...
Title: Lopsided galaxies: the case of NGC 891 Authors: M. Mapelli (1), B. Moore (1), J. Bland-Hawthorn (2) ((1) University of Zürich, (2) University of Sydney) It has been known for a long time that a large fraction of disc galaxies are lopsided. We simulate three different mechanisms that can induc...
The 2 - 4 metre wide asteroid 2017 EA made a close pass (0.05 LD, 0.0001 AU) travelling at 18.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd March 2017 @ 14:05 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: Evidence for dust accumulation just outside the orbit of Venus Authors: Ch. Leinert, B. Moster To contribute to the knowledge of dynamics of interplanetary dust we are searching for structures in the spatial distribution of interplanetary dust near the orbit of Venus. To this end we study t...
Title: KIC 4150611: a rare multi-eclipsing quintuple with a hybrid pulsator Author: K. G. Helminiak, N. Ikita, E. Kambe, S. K. Kozlowski, R. Pawlaszek, H. Maehara, C. Baranec, M. Konacki We present the results of our analysis of KIC 4150611 (HD 181469) - an interesting, bright quintuple system tha...
Toy company Lego to produce Women of Nasa set Children's Lego boxes may already contain yellow Batman, Harry Potter and Star Wars characters, but soon they will also contain female Nasa pioneers. The Danish toy company is making a new set of five figurines, based on real female scientists, engineer...
Intense seismic activity in Iceland's Bárdarbunga volcano Seismic activity in Bárðarbunga, a large sub-glacial volcano in Iceland, has increased. A seismic swarm has been ongoing since 3AM this morning, and near continuous earthquakes have been occurring ever since. Read more
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