China's Mars probe photographs Earth en route to Red Planet - Bangkok Post BEIJING: China's first Mars probe has beamed back a photo of the Earth and the Moon as it heads toward its destination, the country's space agency said Tuesday. More...

There’s A Meteor Shower Tonight. Here’s How You Can See And Photograph ‘Shooting Stars’ This Summer - Forbes This week’s Delta Aqaurids and August’s Perseid meteor shower can easily be captured by cameras. Here’s how to do it. More...

Steps toward room-temperature superconductivity - Phys.org The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists. More...

Neowise July 29 Location: Here is how you can spot the fading comet tonight - Republic World - Republic World The space-born visitor Comet Neowise has put on a breathtaking celestial show on Earth this month. Here is where you can spot the comet on July 29. More...

Scientists decipher key mechanism in hypoxia - Medical Xpress Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) and the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS Princesa) have made a major advance toward deciphering the mechanism through which the production of reactive oxygen speci… More...

Watch: School girls from Gujarat's Surat discover Earth-bound asteroid - Hindustan Times Hindustan TimesTwo school girls from Gujarat’s Surat discovered an Earth-bound asteroid. They discovered it by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope. The discovery was part of All India Asteroid search campaign. The asteroid has been cur… More...

How SpaceX Beat Boeing In The Race To Launch NASA Astronauts - CNBC More...

Butterfly genomics: Monarchs migrate and fly differently, but meet up and mate - Phys.org Each year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate across eastern North America to fly from as far north as the U.S.-Canadian border to overwinter in central Mexico—covering as much as 3,000 miles. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Rocky Mountains, western … More...

Alaskan seismometers record the northern lights - Phys.org Aaron Lojewski, who leads aurora sightseeing tours in Alaska, was lucky enough to photograph a "eruption" of brilliant pink light in the night skies one night in February. More...

A Rapid Reduction In Sunlight May Have Triggered The Snowball Earth Events - IFLScience Some 700 million years ago, the Earth experienced several rounds of the most unusual climates in its history. Known as Snowball Earth, these events made re More...

Transforming e-waste into a strong, protective coating for metal - Science Daily A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a single material into more of the same. However, this approach isn't feasible for old electronic devices, or ''e-waste,'' because they contain small amounts of many different materials th… More...

Ancient bones in disturbed peat bogs are rotting away, alarming archaeologists - Science Magazine Changing conditions in wetlands threaten archaeological remains More...

How Disposable Trash Haulers May Become Orbital Outposts for the Pentagon - Newsweek More...

Tropical storm may delay 1st SpaceX crew’s return to Earth - The Indian Express Tropical weather barreling toward Florida could delay this weekend's planned return of the first SpaceX crew. More...

Rapid Loss of Sunlight Could Have Unleashed Snowball Earth Events in The Past - ScienceAlert Not all ice ages are equally brutal. In the most extreme glaciation events known to science, ice stretches out from Earth's polar regions and extends all the way into lower latitudes, literally reshaping the face of the planet. More...

Astronomers Find Stream of Early Universe Stars, Torn Apart by Our Own Galaxy - ScienceAlert Astronomers have discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars at the distant edges of the galaxy: a strange stellar breed so unlike any we've seen before, they may very well be the last of their kind. More...

Cosmic tango between the very small and the very large - Phys.org While Einstein's theory of general relativity can explain a large array of fascinating astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, some aspects of the properties of the universe at the largest-scales remain a mystery. A new study using loop quantum cosmology—a … More...

New current that transports water to major 'waterfall' discovered in deep ocean - Phys.org An international team discovered a previously unrecognized ocean current that transports water to one of the world's largest "waterfalls" in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow into the deep North Atlantic. While investigating the pathwa… More...

NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars set for launch at 5.25 pm IST today: How to watch it live - Firstpost The mission is supposed to lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. More...

Scientists expose fascinating 'compartments' in bacteria - Phys.org Bacteria—tiny and in some cases deadly single-celled organisms—are far more complex than commonly thought. More...

The Next Best Thing to Jezero Crater This Side of Mars - SciTechDaily You may not be able to travel to Jezero Crater on Mars, but you can visit the next best thing: Lake Salda, Turkey. Though it is located a world away, Lake Salda shares similar minerology and geology as the dry Martian lakebed. Researchers are using their unde… More...

This Is the Best Spot on Earth for Stargazing—If You Can Handle It - Gizmodo Good news, everyone! Astronomers have pinpointed the best location on Earth for studying the stars. But if you’re an amateur astronomer hoping to take advantage of this astronomical sweet spot, you’ll have to bundle up, as it’s in the heart of Antarctica, one… More...

Size up our solar system's many magnificent moons, plopped down right here on Earth - SYFY WIRE The multitude of moons orbiting the planets of our solar system represent the incredible diversity of heavenly bodies that inhabit this tiny corner of the universe. Satellites that call this cosmic neighborhood home come in all iterations, from oblong, dented… More...

ALMA finds possible sign of neutron star in supernova 1987A - Phys.org Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. Based on observations of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and a theoretical follow-up study, the scientists provide new insight… More...

Encyclopedia Created to Detail the Inner Workings of the Human and Mouse Genomes - SciTechDaily ENCODE Project's third phase offers new insights into the organization and regulation of our genes and genome. The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project is a worldwide effort to understand how the human genome functions. With the completion of its lat… More...

Immune functions traded in for reproductive success - Medical Xpress Deep-sea anglerfishes employ an incredible reproductive strategy. Tiny dwarfed males become permanently attached to relatively gigantic females, fuse their tissues and then establish a common blood circulation. In this way, the male becomes entirely dependent… More...

New images reveal haunting images of Mars' mysterious cloud formation - Inverse The Mars Express mission captured images of the mysterious cloud above the Martian surface, a recurring feature that scientists cannot explain yet. More...

Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Lifeforms - IGN Now - IGN More...

NASA's Mars-Bound Spacecraft Is Back Online After Experiencing Technical Difficulties - ScienceAlert Mars 2020, the spaceship carrying NASA's new rover Perseverance to the Red Planet, experienced technical difficulties and was temporarily running on essential systems only, the agency said Thursday. More...