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During thunderstorms, leaves from trees and other plants create mini electric discharges that can significantly alter the surrounding air quality. But researchers are unsure if this is beneficial or harmful. When lightning flashes above, plants...

When lightning flashes above, plants on the ground may respond in kind.

Chasing occultations which are over in a matter of seconds is astronomy for adrenaline junkies: and WA is one of the best places to do it.

During thunderstorms, leaves from trees and other plants create mini electric discharges that can significantly alter the surrounding air quality in unpredictable ways.

NASA hit a bullseye in late September with DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which flew a spacecraft straight at the heart of a nearby asteroid.

With DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, NASA successfully flew a spacecraft directly at the centre of a close asteroid in late September

The CSIR UGC NET answer key 2022 was published by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on October 1, result will be out soon scroll down to check the latest update.

Astronomers have discovered that a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, 3200 Phaethon, has an unusual accelerating spin that could eventually change its trajectory through the solar system.

Just before dawn on 22 February 2021, a fireball lit up the skies across Canada's Alberta (see video below) province when a 2-kilogram space rock vaporized as it plunged through Earth's atmosphere. Although the object hailed from the Oort Cloud —...

Researchers have discovered that the rotational period of the large potentially hazardous asteroid Phaethon is decreasing by 4 milliseconds per year.