New giant crater found under the ice in Greenland
In November 2018, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of a 31-kilometer impact crater hidden under an ice layer in northern Greenland, but according...
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Curiosity rover leaves the crest of Vera Rubin, 360-degree video panorama
After researching the Martian crest of Vera Rubin for more than one year, the NASA rover Curiosity moves on. However, this new video panorama with a 360-degree view allows you...
We should Touch Ourselves (& each other) More—Seriously, Science Says So.
Lately, researchers have set out to discover if the physiology of touch could explain why people with healthy social networks typically enjoy less sickness and longer lives...
A space station inside an asteroid
It sounds like a science fiction movie plot, but scientists are actually studying the seemingly wild idea of building a space station inside an asteroid. Why should humanity...
The future of the Milky Way galaxy
Looking outside our galaxy, the ESA Gaia space telescope explored two nearby galaxies and how they would one day interact and collide with the Milky Way. The result was...
A teenage science geek's quest to collect every element on the periodic table
In the 1960s, when Scientific American copy editor Michael J. Battaglia was 15, he had a chemical romance with the periodic table. In fact, Battaglia was so fascinated by the...
How and when climate chaos comes to Earth
The study imitates the effects of the melting of two ice sheets on ocean temperature, its currents, and on air temperature by the year 2100 that people on our planet encounter...
A star with a length of 33 light years jet
MUSE’s adaptive optics and receiver on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) allowed astronomers to get a magnificent image of the...
Astrobiologists investigate life on a planetary scale
When we think about life on Earth, we imagine individual organisms, ranging from animals to bacteria. However, when astrobiologists study life, they must consider not only...
Organic elements around the young star
Astronomers using the ALMA X-ray observatory have discovered complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Orion. As a result of an unexpected outburst on this star in...