We're all made of star stuff, but some things in the universe are created by comets. Neptune's recently discovered and smallest moon, Hippocamp, has been ...
A newly discovered small moon of Neptune is coming into clearer focus as astronomers have now pinpointed this tiny rock's orbit and where it might have come ...
A new moon called Hippocamp, named after a mythological equine sea creature had been previously overlooked by other spacecraft as it is only 34 kilometres ...
A Japanese spacecraft is set to touch down on a distant asteroid Thursday, before shooting a bullet into the space rock to capture a bit of debris that eventually ...
The spacecraft Hayabusa2's first touchdown onto the asteroid Ryugu is scheduled for this week. If successful, the craft will shoot a bullet into the rock in order to ...
A Japanese spacecraft began its approach Thursday toward a distant asteroid on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the origin of the solar ...
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese spacecraft began its approach Thursday toward a distant asteroid on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the ...
When you're getting ready in the morning and need to know whether to wear a jacket or not you probably just tap your smartphone screen a few times and bring ...
Instruments aboard NASA's InSight lander are now gathering meteorological data from the Martian surface, allowing for daily weather reports that are being ...
This NASA rover was even older than Facebook. The Opportunity mission — which touched down on Mars on Jan. 25, 2004, a few weeks before Facebook was ...
If you were too busy binging Russian Doll last night, then you might have missed a massive celestial wonder: a second 2019 super moon! The super snow moon ...
The moon was at its fullest just before 4 p.m. EST on Tuesday. Twelve hours earlier, it was at the closest perigee of 2019. Together this makes for a "supermoon", ...
NASA has warned SpaceX and Boeing Co of design and safety concerns for their competing astronaut launch systems, according to industry sources and a new ...
Next week, SpaceX is poised to make history with the first-ever test flight of a private spaceship built to carry astronauts into orbit. That Crew Dragon Demo-1 ...
NASA has warned SpaceX and Boeing Co of design and safety concerns for their competing astronaut launch systems, according to industry sources and a new ...
NASA has warned SpaceX and Boeing Co. of design and safety concerns for their competing astronaut launch systems, according to industry sources and a ...
A protein found in squid could be used to create sustainable alternatives to plastics. Researchers say materials made from the protein are biodegradable and ...
Scientists from Penn State in the US discovered the protein and invented a way to manufacture it with bacteria to avoid harming the animals. It can be used in ...
The remarkable properties of a recently-discovered squid protein could revolutionize materials in a way that would be unattainable with conventional plastic, ...
Until now, feeling the sudden sharp grip of a squid's tentacles has been bad news for fish. But the array of keratin-like teeth that the animal uses to pull prey ...
The Man in the Moon is about to get one in the eye. Tonight sees the blast-off into space of the first privately funded mission to the Moon. Due to launch on a ...
An Israeli startup is set to launch to the Moon tomorrow, and if it's successful it will become the first private mission ever to reach the lunar surface, a huge ...
SpaceX will launch an Israeli robotic lunar lander during the company's Falcon 9 rocket launch tomorrow (Feb. 21). If the lander succeeds, this will be the first ...
This week will see the world's first privately funded lunar mission launch. Israel's first mission to the moon will be launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on ...
The moon has only ever been visited by government superpowers, but a small Israeli non-profit called SpaceIL is about to change that with its lunar lander.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The landing site at Tranquility Base has remained mostly untouched — though ...
We know that many of the traits we see in animals are there because they evolved by somehow being useful to the species. But evolution is messy, and the ...
It has puzzled them since the days of Charles Darwin, but now scientists have established why Zebras have stripes - and it's not just for looks. They also stop ...
In many developed countries, mosquitoes are a nuisance that also have the potential to be carriers for disease. In areas where malaria runs rampant, however, ...
Dr. Wallace S. Broecker, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm about climate change and the researcher who popularized the term “global warming,” died ...
Wallace Broecker, the geochemist who popularized the phrase “global warming,” passed away on Monday at 87. His research changed our understanding of ...
In 1975, geologist Wallace Broecker penned a scientific paper warning about the still little-discussed concept of "global warming." Forty-four years later Broecker ...
A five-meter great white shark that has been preserved in formaldehyde in an abandoned wildlife park has just had one of her secrets revealed: genome is ...
Great white sharks have an extraordinary genome that could help to save human lives, scientists claim.The first “map” of the creature's DNA has uncovered a ...
The great white shark is impressively terrifying (though not actually much of a threat to humans). But a new study shows that the animal is also an impressive feat ...
The hunt for Planet Nine has so far eluded researchers, but one citizen scientist working on a project to find the evasive celestial body has found something just ...
A German citizen scientist has discovered a new space object via a project that encourages nonprofessional astronomers to join the search for a large planet on ...
NASA has announced that a volunteer working with the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has made a very impressive discovery. The amateur scientist has.
A NASA-led citizen scientist project has discovered an ancient white dwarf that's surrounded by large rings, which is shaking up our understanding of how these ...
Professional astronomers and volunteers working with the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project have spotted the oldest and coldest known white ...
When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), ...
Ten Princeton scientists have been selected to receive 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships, highly competitive grants given to outstanding young scholars ...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded Assistant Professor of Physics Marcelle Soares-Santos a Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most competitive ...
Two University of Wisconsin–Madison professors have been named to Sloan Research Fellowships — prestigious and competitive awards given to promising ...
Four faculty members, including two from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering operated jointly by Georgia Tech and Emory University, ...
Scientists first became aware of a potentially warming world as far back as the 1970s, and the alarm bells really began sounding in the early 2000s, but no ...
The gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630000 kilometers away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet, according to a new study based on ...
Observations made more than 20 years ago by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, found that the region known as the geocorona stretches up ...
We humans like to put labels and boundaries on things. For example, the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space is the Kármán line, the point at 100 ...
NASA's latest Mars lander has a very precise weather package, and you can check the daily conditions on Elysium Planitia online. The data however has ...
A new NASA mission to the Red Planet will, for the first time, provide a daily weather report from Mars, where things right now are a whole other level of cold.
The former Congressman said finding “life on another world” was a priority for the agency. He was speaking at an event held at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
LOONY conspiracy theorists are at it again – and this time they think they've found an ancient alien temple on Mars. New photos of the red planet appear to ...
A long, hard look at the Whirlpool galaxy with NASA's NuSTAR mission has revealed a puzzling scenario: An object smaller than Earth is outshining two galactic ...
Now that scientists have fully sequenced the great white shark genome, they're closer to figuring out these creatures' ability to heal quickly and keep cancer at ...
Cue the John Williams theme to the movie Jaws and make sure you have a big enough boat as we dive into this story. New research shows that great white ...
In what is considered an important scientific step, researchers have decoded the entire genome of the great white shark. The findings revealed a genome ...
If you picture early humans dining, you likely imagine them sitting down to a barbecue of mammoth, aurochs, and giant elk meat. But in the rainforests of Sri ...
Early humans were capable of hunting small mammals like monkeys and squirrels for food, a new study in Nature Communications shows. Using remains from ...
Some 45,000 years ago, the tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka teemed with dangerous plants and lacked big game, yet people made a life there. Our key to ...
The first humans to arrive in Sri Lanka were able to survive by hunting monkeys then making weapons from their bones, scientists have said. The discovery ...
New evidence from Sri Lanka's oldest archaeological site suggests that early humans used sophisticated techniques to hunt monkeys and squirrels, according ...
As anyone who's ever pulled an all-nighter can attest, sleep feels pretty essential to life. While the field of sleep science has long thought that animals and ...
Ask parents of newborns whether they think sleep is overrated and you're liable to catch a death stare. Yet some fruit flies almost never nod off, according to a ...
Male flies kept awake do not die earlier than those allowed to sleep, leading researchers to question whether sleep, in flies at least, is essential for staying alive.
Emissions of carbon dioxide – the greenhouse gas most responsible for global warming – could soar to levels not seen in 56 million years by the middle of next ...
Researchers have documented a group of tanner crabs vigorously feeding at a methane seep on the seafloor off British Columbia—one of the first times a ...
A paper published Monday in a well-known science journal begins with the following sentence: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a pair of grape ...
It's a crowd-pleasing party trick: Cut a grape in half, pop it in the microwave, hit “start” then sit back and watch the dazzling “grape balls of fire.” Now a team of ...
Researchers in China are planning a solar farm in space, an ambitious project expected to deliver energy at six times the intensity of installations on Earth.
Our sun is the most readily available source of energy we have available to us, but harnessing its incredible power is something humanity still considers a...
Plans were broadly sketched out in the nation's twelfth five-year plan, in 2008. Since then China's Defense Science and Technology Bureau has supported key ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover Feb. 1 from an altitude of 51 miles (82 kilometers).
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with the Indonesian Nusantara Satu ...
Humans have pushed atmospheric carbon dioxide to heights unseen in our short (geologically speaking) existence. But give us another few generations, and ...
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a ...
One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy. Since then, that cluster has whipped four long circles around the edge of the Milky Way. In that time ...
Life in space changed the activity of some of American astronaut Scott Kelly's genes compared to those of his identical twin brother, who stayed on Earth.
Scientists are still trying to figure out how the human body responds to long-duration spaceflight. It's an important and open research question as NASA moves ...
Across the animal kingdom, gastrulation represents a key developmental event during which embryonic pluripotent cells diversify into lineage-specific ...
Excitons—electrically neutral quasiparticles—have extraordinary properties. They exist only in semiconducting and insulating materials and can be easily ...
Something about atoms has never added up. Fundamental particles called quarks get kind of sluggish once they're caught up in crowds of protons and neutrons ...
The atomic nucleus is made of protons and neutrons (nucleons), which are themselves composed of quarks and gluons. Understanding how the quark–gluon ...
A Scottish stickleback fish had a “virgin birth” after fertilising its own eggs internally, scientists have revealed. And researchers named her Mary after the mother ...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "flash-frozen" a flat crystal of 150 beryllium ions (electrically charged atoms), ...
A commonly-used filter to rid beer and wine of sediments and make them clearer could transfer heavy metals such as arsenic into the drinks, a new study claims.
Health officials around the world are on the lookout for contaminants in food and beverages, and studies from as far afield as Finland, Italy and Chile have found ...
An Elk Grove man is taking lunar photography to a whole new level, creating stellar images from tens of thousands of photos. Andrew McCarthy's moon images ...
In case you missed out on the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year, here are some photos of the moon from around the world. The reason it's the biggest ...
A huge asteroid the size of Big Ben sped past Earth this evening but thankfully left our fragile planet totally intact. The rock was called 2013 MD8 and is a 'near ...
Earlier today, scientists reportedly said that even though the massive space rock is expected to make a relatively “close approach” to Earth in space terms, ...
SpaceX has announced their Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the PSN 6 communications satellite and SpaceIL's Lunar Lander, is scheduled to launch Thursday night ...
Scattered clouds, light winds and mild temperatures are expected Thursday night for a SpaceX rocket launch that aims to place a trio of spacecraft in orbit, one ...
“When we first saw Ryugu last June we were very surprised, because the shape is a spinning top and we never imagined that. Our next surprise was that the ...
There is a scene in the film Hayabusa (2011) that brilliantly gives the audience a tantalizing first-hand experience of a space mission. It's 20 November 2005 and ...
Imagine being stuck inside a maze and wanting to find your way out. How would you proceed? The answer is trial and error. This is how traditional computers ...
A photo of Northern Lights from Iceland shows an uncanny resemblance to a gigantic green dragon looming over the dark sky. The dragon's head is lined by a ...
NASA have posted an image of a stunning dragon-shaped aurora, which was seen lighting up the sky in Iceland this week. The space agency shared it as their ...
Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of the Sun that may help explain why the corona (the wispy upper atmosphere of our star) is so ...
Currently, there is no precise computation method to describe superconducting materials. TU Wien has now made a major advance towards achieving this goal ...
The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a ...
Israel is looking to join the ranks of space superpowers by becoming the fourth country to land a probe on the Moon. In addition to science instruments, the ...
Israel is about to make history by launching the first private spacecraft to the moon this week, the developers behind the lunar mission announced Tuesday.
On Thursday, an eight-year old Israeli firm named SpaceIL will attempt to become the first private company to land a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL has ...
On Thursday evening, SpaceX is scheduled to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, but this time, the vehicle will be carrying a payload it's never ...
For 15 years, scientists have tried to exploit the "miracle material" graphene to produce nanoscale electronics. On paper, graphene should be great for just that: it ...
Researchers solved one of the challenges of making graphene nano-electronics effective: to carve out graphene to nanoscale dimensions without ruining its ...
The concept of equilibrium is one of the most central ideas in economics. It is one of the core assumptions in the vast majority of economic models, including ...
When we look out at the ultra-distant Universe, billion of light-years away, we're seeing it as it was in the distant past as well. At those earlier times, the Universe ...
After a two-month hiatus, the Space Coast is set to see smoke and fire again Thursday when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rumbles off the pad at Cape Canaveral.
If you've been following the SpaceX launch calendar, you know this week marks the first launch from Cape Canaveral in two months. The weather forecast for ...
Faulty DNA replication can make genomes unstable. It now seems that, in mice, severe disruption of DNA replication triggers inflammation in the placenta, and ...
Genomic instability can trigger cellular responses that include checkpoint activation, senescence and inflammation. Although genomic instability has been ...
The connection between bird diet and skull shape is surprisingly weak for most species according to a new study led by UCL and the Natural History Museum, ...
Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described ...
Images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft when it flew by an object the size of a large metropolitan area at the frontier of the solar system Jan. 1 have ...
