Sunspot AR-1476 is currently on its 5th day of a two week transit across the face of the sun. The "Monster Sunspot" has a 65% chance of more M-Class solar flares and a 10% chance of X-Class flares within the next 24 hours according to NOAA forecasters.
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.
People who consider themselves highly religious are less motivated by compassion than non-believers, according to a new study from the University of California at Berkeley.
Though they evolved separately over millions of years in different worlds of darkness, bats and toothed whales use surprisingly similar acoustic behavior to locate, track, and capture prey using echolocation, the biological equivalent of sonar.