An image of an asteroid orbiting the Sun close to Earth, looking very much like a potential new quasi-moon. (Image credit: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo) A new paper describes another possible “quasi-moon” of Earth, as well as an asteroid that…
Are you in the U.S. and have you tried getting a COVID vaccine this year? We want to hear from you. (Photo: Yulia Reznikova, Getty Images) Each fall, updated versions of COVID-19 vaccines are released around the same time as…
It seems strange and absurd in our time that some adults want to protect children from seeing naked nature. In a world where the Internet rules almost all spheres of modern life, and immodest pictures can be seen without any…
The intervening galaxy refracts and amplifies light from the background quasar RX J1131, creating four separate images (shown in pink). Tiny flickers in these images allowed astronomers to directly measure the size of the black hole's superheated “corona” for the…
A new species of crinoid fish has been discovered at a depth of 10,700 feet. (Image credit: © 2019 MBARI) A lumpy pink fish with blue eyes and beard-like appendages was captured on video hovering above the muddy bottom of…
An international team of researchers from China and the UK has uncovered a mechanism by which influenza is particularly dangerous for the elderly. The work is published in the journal PNAS. Scientists have found that with age, the level of…