Five Earth-size planets discovered orbiting 11.2 billion year-old star
Scientists who were sifting through four years’ worth of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovered an 11.2-billion-year-old star with at least five Earth-size planets...
US blizzard storm development witnessed by satellite
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service have been monitoring a low pressure area that moved from the USA’s Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean and...
How do you unboil an egg? You untangle the proteins and let them refold
American and Australian scientists have worked out how to unboil an egg, specifically the egg white. You pull apart tangled proteins and allow them...
Asteroid that flew close to Earth has its own moon
The asteroid that zipped past Earth on January 26th has its own small moon, according to radar images taken from NASA’s 230-foot-wide Deep Space...
Martian helicopter drone will scout ahead of ground-bound rover
NASA believes a helicopter drone flying around as a scout for the ground-bound rover would help the six-wheeled vehicle work more effectively. According to...
Asteroid that killed off dinosaurs did not cause vast global firestorms
The asteroid that created the Chicxulubt crater in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and is believed to have led to the extinction of dinosaurs...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft readying for huge Pluto photo shoot
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally nears its long-awaited encounter with Pluto, the first of many approach phases that will conclude with the first close-up...
Our earliest primate ancestor lived in trees and looked like shrews
When we think of our earliest primate ancestors we do not think of tree-dwelling creatures that looked like squirrels or shrews and weighed less...
Speed of light slowed down by Scottish scientists who changed shape of photons
Scottish scientists say they slowed down the speed of light in free space for the first time by applying a mask to an optical...
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed up on Cumbrian beach dies
A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle that was found washed up on a beach in Cumbria, North West England, has died. It was one of...