Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at near-Earth asteroid Bennu a year ago, and the spinning top-shaped space rock has been full of surprises. The latest ...
NASA started off the year strong with big news from its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe. In early January, NASA celebrated the successful insertion of the probe in an ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will snag a sample from asteroid Bennu. After a lengthy and ...
A Russian Progress freighter launched atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early this morning (Dec. 6), carrying 2.7 tons of food, ...
12:45pm ET Thursday Update: A Falcon 9 rocket launched on Thursday from Florida, delivering its Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The first stage then made a safe ...
For the third and final time this year, Roscosmos launched its Progress resupply vehicle to the International Space Station. The flight is the fourth cargo resupply ...
SpaceX successfully launched an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft for NASA today (Dec. 5) on the company's final cargo mission of the year. They aced a rocket ...
Why should we care about the new findings - released this week - from NASA's Parker Solar Probe? This new NASA video explains how the solar wind - a ...
NASA's sun-skimming spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, is surprising scientists with its unprecedented close views of our star. Scientists released the first ...
The closest ever mission to the Sun has discovered dynamic structures in the solar wind that will help explain how this flux of charged particles is created and ...
The first results to come down from NASA's record-setting Parker Solar Probe have impressed the pioneering astrophysicist who lent the spacecraft his name.
NASA has released the first significant findings from the Parker Solar Probe's first two close encounters with the Sun that began in November 2018. Four new ...
The astronaut assistant known as CIMON 2 just launched for the orbiting lab aboard SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule, which lifted off today (Dec. 5) from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching ...
The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion (or CIMON, for short) recorded a number of firsts on its initial mission to the International Space Station, which took ...
Robotic helpers are becoming an increasingly important element aboard the International Space Station. It is here where robots like the Robonaut, CIMON, ...
An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, ...
A Dragon spacecraft will return to the International Space Station for the third time tomorrow, after today's planned launch was delayed due to bad weather high ...
On December 5th, SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon cargo capsule, filled with nearly 5700 pounds of cargo and supplies for the crew of the International Space ...
SpaceX on Thursday made its second attempt to launch a resupply mission to the International Space Station that was postponed due to upper level winds ...
Birds have been shrinking but their wingspans getting longer as global temperatures rise and the climate warms, a new study published Wednesday in the ...
Scientists believe that birds in North America are getting smaller because of rising temperatures associated with climate change. A study published Wednesday ...
As average summer temperatures rise, North American birds are getting smaller, according to a study of 70,716 specimens published yesterday (December 4) in ...
It turns out polar ice sheets aren't the only things shrinking thanks to climate change. Some birds are, too. This is according to researchers from the University of ...
A day after Nasa announced it had located the debris of Chandrayaan-2 lander, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief K Sivan said the Indian space ...
It's been over two months since India's mission to land on the Moon was cut short by a mysterious and unexplained failure of the Vikram lander spacecraft.
IPL 2020: The site was located by Shanmuga Subramanian, who on his own, scoured the pictures taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital Camera (LROC), ...
The first lander to reach Mars was launched nearly 50 years ago, but much about the red planet remains a mystery. After decades of roving, research and taking ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since 1978, researchers have scooped up and measured tens of thousands of birds that died after crashing into buildings in Chicago ...
North American birds are getting smaller, a study in Ecology Letters has found, and scientists think the climate crisis is to blame. Researchers from the University ...
BIRDS are shrinking and their wingspans are growing as a result of global warming. That's the shock claim made by scientists, who measured tens of thousands ...
Birds are getting smaller, according to an analysis of migratory birds that died after colliding into buildings in Chicago and were collected as specimens for the ...
200 of the 389 species of birds in our state are on the brink of risk of extinction. The study showed that by stabilizing carbon emissions and holding warming to ...
When residents of Hawaii fled the massive eruption of the Kilauea volcano in May 2018, volcanologist Cheryl Gansecki and colleagues grabbed a homemade ...
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Real-time monitoring of volcanic eruptions involving caldera-forming events are rare (see the Perspective by Sigmundsson). Anderson et al. used several types ...
Few recent eruptions have captured the public imagination like the 2018 events at Hawaii's Kīlauea. An ongoing eruption from May to August inundated the ...
Real-time monitoring of volcanic eruptions involving caldera-forming events are rare (see the Perspective by Sigmundsson). Anderson et al. used several types ...
In 1906, zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings reported a remarkable discovery. He found an example of intelligent behaviour in a freshwater organism made of ...
Once, single-cell life claimed sole dominion over the earth. For some three billion years, unfathomable generations of unicellular organisms ate, grew and ...
Being single-celled doesn't necessarily doom a creature to a simple life. A *fresh* look at a long-dismissed, century-old experiment suggests that so-called ...
Can a single cell be sophisticated enough to "change its mind"? (Stentor footage courtesy: James Weiss (Jam's Germs), Bill Porter). Once, single-cell life claimed ...
A university student recently solved a question that's puzzled physicists for over half a century: Why do gas bubbles appear to get stuck inside narrow vertical ...
Even the rather primitive climate computer models of the 1970s, 80s and 90s were impressively accurate, lending extra credibility to the much more advanced ...
Even the rather primitive climate computer models of the 1970s, 80s and 90s were impressively accurate, lending extra credibility to the much more advanced ...
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It's a common refrain from those who question mainstream climate science findings: The computer models scientists use to project future global warming are ...
Model simulations published between 1970 and 2007 were generally accurate in predicting global warming's effects in the years after publication, a new study ...
Gravitational waves leave behind a memory — a permanent bend in space-time — as they pass through. We are now on the verge of being able to detect that ...
For the first time, researchers have discovered a planet orbiting what's left of an exploded star, New Scientist reports. The planet, which is similar in size to ...
ASTRONOMERS have for the first time discovered evidence of an alien exoplanet orbiting a super-dense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf, a new study ...
For the first time Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet appears to be evaporating as the white dwarf consumes the ...
White dwarfs are the cores of stars that were once similar to the Sun. At some point, these stars have exhausted the lighter elements that fueled their earlier ...
Space scientists have discovered the first ever evidence of a dying planet clinging of to White Dwarf star and it is already offering a fatal glimpse into the death of ...
Christina Koch | NASA. Michigan astronaut Christina Koch shared a fantastically beautiful image of Michigan from the International Space Station on Wednesday ...
New hardware installed in current gravitational-wave detectors uses quantum effects to boost sensitivity and increase the event detection rate by as much as ...
Physicists are reporting the results of a test to squeeze the vacuum of spacetime itself in order to better detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes.
Whether or not humans will colonize Mars in the near future is no longer a matter of debate. But what's a lot less certain is exactly how we'll pull it off. There's a ...
It will be one of the most daunting, complicated and, potentially, scientifically rewarding missions ever undertaken to the red planet. Ministers at a recent meeting ...
Airbus engineers in Stevenage are making sure Martian soil will safely be safely collected and experts say they may stop on Mars to ensure no 'direct path' of ...
British engineers have begun testing technologies that will be needed to bring samples of Martian rock to Earth. The Airbus team is training a prototype rover to ...
A MAJOR asteroid nicknamed the God of Chaos has the potential to cause devastating tsunamis and plunge the world into climate chaos, an expert has warned.
NASA is currently monitoring a massive asteroid that's expected to approach Earth on Wednesday. According to the agency, the approaching asteroid is almost ...
Oh my, this recently discovered black hole... well, it's big. How big? Among black holes whose masses scientists can directly infer based on the motion of their ...
As if black holes weren't already a big deal in our universe, a black hole that was spotted in another galaxy broke a record as the heaviest known black hole to ...
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A species of archaea called Metallosphaera sedula is capable of growth on stony meteorites, utilizing metals trapped within these extraterrestrial objects as the ...
The reason our human faces look like they do is because of a long history of accumulated mutations, a new study suggests. Researchers claim this finding ...
When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us. A new ...
A single gene controls much of the development of the human face. The same gene is also involved in the domestication of dogs – suggesting that we have ...
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We undertook a functional dissection of chromatin remodeler BAZ1B in neural crest (NC) stem cells (NCSCs) from a uniquely informative cohort of typical and ...
The comet, 2I/Borisov, looks surprisingly like comets closer to home. It's a sign that the processes that formed the sun and planets are at work elsewhere in the ...
A comet from another star will swing by our sun Dec. 8. Known as 2I/Borisov, it is the first comet to ever be seen coming from interstellar space. But despite its ...
Of all the objects astronomers have observed in space over centuries of scientific investigation, black holes are one of the most bizarre and mysterious.
INDIAN space chiefs have slammed NASA after the US space agency claimed it had found India's lost moon lander this week – but Indian Space Research ...
India's Vikram lunar lander didn't land on the Moon. It crashed back in early September, destroying both the lander itself as well as the small rover it was ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION — We are just a couple weeks away from the first test launch of a new commercial spacecraft, which will soon ferry ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing has delayed its first test flight of its Starliner crew capsule to the International Space Station.The launch is now targeted for ...
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Russia's Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket has successfully lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, delivering life-supporting cargo for the International ...
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Fifty years ago, the Apollo 11 moon landing changed how the world viewed space exploration. For the millions of people who watched Neil Armstrong take his ...
What may have been the world's tallest waterfall briefly formed on Greenland's ice sheet last year, draining a meltwater lake of 5 million cubic meters of water ...
Protocells—artificial cells—that are active and mimic living cells by moving independently and that are biocompatible and enzymatically active are now possible ...
Greenhouse gas emissions released directly from the movement of volcanic rocks are capable of creating massive global warming effects—a discovery which ...
Greenhouse gas emissions released directly from the movement of volcanic rocks are capable of creating massive global warming effects — a discovery which ...
Having nearly completed its long journey to the asteroid Bennu and collected a couple of orbital records along the way, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is now ...
A scientist in California is turning to a large, and very agile, seal to track how heat is transferred through ocean currents by outfitting the animal with a sensor and ...
Scientists using the NASA TESS spacecraft have captured what they say is a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice, and ...
A Nasa satellite has captured the sudden moment ice and dust explodes from a comet into the dark void of space. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...
Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong—this is the crossover event you've been waiting for. Well, at least if you're a condensed matter physicist. Harvard University ...
Old habits are hard to break. A McGill-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a ...
New instrument extends LIGO's reach: Technology “squeezes” out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detected. Just a year ago, the ...
Two hundred fire fighters have now reportedly died from illnesses related to the September 11th attacks, according to a charitable organization that assists 9/11 ...
ANN ARBOR—Some stress at a young age could actually lead to a longer life, new research shows. University of Michigan researchers have discovered that ...
A new study from the University of Michigan has found that roundworms that produced more radical molecules early in development lived longer than worms that ...
True to its name, dark matter has long been one of the universe's biggest mysteries. It is, after all, invisible, emitting no light whatsoever. And yet, we know it ...
The National Weather *Service* in Birmingham captured cool video of a fireball or meteor shooting across the sky over its office in Shelby County Wednesday ...
The Greenland Ice Sheet may be even more unstable than scientists previously thought, according to new research that reveals how lakes on the surface of ...
Entropy, a measure of the molecular disorder or randomness of a system, is critical to understanding a system's physical composition. In complex physical ...
When cartographers first started mapping the world's oceans, sea monsters and mythical beasts inhabited the places where sailors had yet to explore. Today ...
US News: WASHINGTON: Nasa is attaching a “robot hotel” to the outside of the International Space Station with the upcoming launch of the Robotic Tool ...
NASA is going to be sending something it calls a “robot hotel” to the International Space Station aboard the next commercial resupply mission, which is set to ...
Sometimes robots need a place to stay in space, too. NASA is attaching a “robot hotel” to the outside of the International Space Station with the upcoming launch ...
Sometimes robots need a place to stay in space, too. NASA is attaching a "robot hotel" to the outside of the International Space Station with the upcoming launch ...
In space, no one can hear you scream about not having enough room to store your robots. But it's still a problem. Until now. NASA and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: ...
When most people think of a plant, they picture stems, leaves, flowers, and all the parts that are visible above ground. But Duke biologist Philip Benfey is more ...
Researchers from Tohoku University have discovered a new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the Pacific Plate. The research team, led by Associate ...
Southeast Asia is a riot of color and biodiversity. Boasting luxuriant rainforest and thousands of insects and mammals, the region is ripe for a biologist in search ...
NASA has detected the biggest asteroid to approach Earth this week. Based on the data collected by the agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies ...
University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies.
Scientists have known that depriving adult mice of vision can increase the sensitivity of individual neurons in the part of the brain devoted to hearing.
A Cornell University senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide. Zifan Lin has ...
Anyone who wants to observe a breathtaking celestial event before the end of the year is in luck. The Geminid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky on ...
The Geminids meteor shower takes place every year as the Earth passes through the debris field of 'extinct comet' 3200 Phaethon and is often the highlight of ...
BY SHOOTING A missile into one of its own satellites in March, India upped the ante. The immediate intention, suggests Jeffrey Caton, a retired American ...
