Three scientists win Nobel Prize for immune tolerance research
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Pluto's weird orbit was one of the main reasons why it got demoted to the status of a dwarf planet. Three things about its orbit make it an oddball among the planets: Firstly, it's highly inclined to the ecliptic. Pluto's inclination to the ecliptic is 17...
Astrum explores everything NASA's New Horizons saw and discovered in the Kuiper Belt around Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth (Ultima Thule).
The Insane Engineering of the Parker Solar Probe
Russia has announced it will withdraw as a partner in the International Space Station after 2024.
I call myself a Sci-Fi fan and yet I've never watched any Star Trek?! I figured why not film my reaction so we can chat about which parts are more science, a...
Jodie Foster as an astrophysicist searching for alien signals - what's not to love?! To learn more about radio waves head to http://brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free.
Real astrophysicist reacts to Netflix's Don't Look Up
The first science images from JWST are absolutely spectacular, but what are we seeing in them and what can learn from them? I've been at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Warwick all week with 500 of my fellow astronomers, and we've been...
Only four spacecraft have ever returned photographs from the surface of Venus. The Venera landers scanned the surface back and forth to create panoramic images of their surroundings. They revealed yellow skies and cracked, desolate landscapes that were b...
n a remarkable dream come true for space scientists, NASA’s James Webb Telescope has demonstrated its unprecedented capacity to analyze the atmosphere of a huge exoplanet. JWST has captured the distinct signature of water in the atmosphere surrounding a h...
NASA's newest Mars rover stumbled across a small bundle of string while exploring an ancient delta in a search for signs of ancient microscopic life.
A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to 'lethal trauma' as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. (Dec. 30)
Mars:Perseverance Rover Recently Found a broken Stony Hand on Mars Surface||Mars in 4k||
Incredible Secret James Webb Image We Weren't Shown + A New Surprise Discovery
Is faster-than-light (FTL) travel possible? In most discussions of this, we get hung up on the physics of particular ideas, such as wormholes or warp drives. But today, we take a more zoomed out approach that addresses all FTL propulsion - as well as FTL...
This is an excerpt from Prof walter Lewin's fairwell lecture on the 16th may 2011. He beautifully demonstrated Newton's third law of motion as well as the conservation of momentum at the end of this lecture