Science & Tech

It will be followed by the “Super Flower Moon” on May 7, 2020, which will be the fourth and final supermoon of the year

Giant star explosion 4.5-billion-light-years-away produced ‘odd effects’

“Vitamin D is the sunshine hormone and we need bright sunshine on the skin to make it, but variations in our genes also influence how efficient we are at doing that,” says researcher

A stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth

A wandering star had been violently ripped apart

Scientists attempting to determine where & when major stellar crash took place

3D printer able to make material from urea, lunar polymers

Column of ash launched 16,000 feet in air

Space rock flew past us at over 20 kilometers per second

Lithium-ion batteries reach end of their life in just 25 cycles

Little known at the time of Voyager 2’s flyby, plasmoids have since become recognized as an important way planets lose mass

There exists no evidence to link forest fires to climate change

Only three particles are enough to break the time symmetry

Extremely cold temperature after asteroid collision not devastating enough

Study says our solar system acquired current configuration not long after its formation

May explain why there’s so few relatively large galaxies in the universe

If Jupiter had been at least 80 times more massive at its formation, it could have become a type of star called a red dwarf rather than a planet

Mission first launch of American astronauts aboard an American rocket & spacecraft since 2011

Massive stars make our Sun look tiny in comparison

Image taken from over 160,000 light-years away

Researchers find evidence of ‘large lighting strike or many smaller strikes on same spot’

Study puts emphasis on molten part of Earth’s mantle rather than its core

This is critical for future human space travel

As with Earth, asteroids delivered most of Mercury’s water