Space science
Supernova has a strange 'reverse shock wave'
A new study reveals that a powerful shock wave traveling through a cloud of gas left behind by a star's exploding death has an oddity: Part of it is heading in the wrong…
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Important Discovery of Pluto's Ice Volcano
Ice volcanoes have been found to exist on a number of icy moons in the Solar System, however the ice volcanoes on Pluto have a different appearance from all other ice vo…
Space science
The sun has been 'hibernated' for 70 years: A replica world has appeared
The 4-century mystery of a 70-year hiatus of the solar cycle is expected to be solved through the discovery of HD 166620, a star experiencing the same phenomenon.
Conquer Mars
Scientists measure the speed of sound on Mars
Based on data collected by NASA robots, scientists estimate that sound travels on Mars at a speed of about 864km/h.
Space science
'Treasure Lake' contains things to help people live healthy beyond Earth
New research has found evidence of ice in permanently obscured impact craters on the Moon, which may have helped sustain the first extraterrestrial settlements.
Space science
Appears like this Earth, habitable exoplanet
According to SciTech Daily, that's a Moon just as big as Earth's Moon.
Space science
Scientists come up with a new hypothesis about a symmetric universe
Scientists think there is a symmetric version of the universe with a retrograde charge and retrograde time.
Space science
Studying the light emitted by black holes helps narrow the search for axions
The light particle - called an axion - has been proposed as a solution to the mystery of why the universe has so little antimatter and is a candidate for the elusive dar…
Space science
Azuma Makoto - Pioneer in the project of bringing trees into space
Azuma Makoto and his colleagues have brought a 50-year-old white bonsai tree and many other plants such as orchids, hydrangeas, lilies... into space.
Space science
Antimatter spewing from 'afterlife' object detected
Legendary antimatter has filled space from a dead star's escape.
Space science
European Space Agency develops equipment to harvest oxygen on the Moon
The European Space Agency plans to deploy a device capable of extracting 70% of the oxygen from the lunar surface by 2030.
Space science
Strange and mysterious things in the universe you may not know
Strange galaxies, planets with unknown features, mysterious satellites and unique phenomena.
Conquer Mars
The formation and disappearance of a 4,000km-wide dust storm on Mars
The UAE's Hope spacecraft observes the formation and disappearance of a giant dust storm in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
Science Events
Asteroid nearly 500m has just passed the Earth
NASA says an asteroid with a diameter more than three times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt flew past Earth today.
Discover science
Found the biggest building block of life, about to land on a new planet
The largest molecule found in a disk of dust and gas orbiting a small star has been identified. It is a building block of life.