GRASS will launch about the Hera mission in October 2024, if all goes according to plan.

The four-person crew landed back on Earth earlier this week after completing a 10-day mission on board the ISS.

Betelgeuse will explode as a supernova and Orion will never be the same. That much is certain. But when will it explode?

A barred spiral galaxy 17 million light-years from Earth is the latest target of NASA’s most perceptive observatory.

Designed to better move heat away from semiconductor hot-spots, this nanoscale approach can boost thermal conductivity by 25 percent.

Marine biologists uncover ancient RNA viruses preserved within the DNA of symbiotic organisms residing in reef-building corals.

A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch, but rain in Spain interfered at times.

A University of Virginia-led study about a class of materials called associative polymers appears to challenge a long-held understanding of how the materials, which have unique self-healing and flow properties, function at the molecular level.

Predicting a protein's location within a cell can help researchers unlock a plethora of biological information that's critical for developing future scientific discoveries related to drug development and treating diseases like epilepsy. That's because protein…

Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have made a foundational discovery about chromosome biology through their work on the first-ever human pangenome reference.

Feast your eyes on our sister planet this weekend: Venus will be at its highest point in our sky on June 4.

The livestream celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express orbiter's launch.

Utilizing the most powerful telescope to date, astronomers have identified a colossal and tightly clustered galaxy situated 25 billion light-years away. GS-9209, a galaxy that emerged just 600 to 800 million years following the Big Bang, has been identified a…

A map of the Earth 20,000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, when colder temperatures transformed the planet we know so well.

Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of modern non-Africans

Unlocking the potential of laboratory-crafted DNA, known as synthetic DNA, holds the key to groundbreaking advancements across multiple domains, according to quantum biologists from the University of Surrey.

Similar to human skin, the materials produced by the Stanford researchers can sense thermal, mechanical or electrical changes around it.

Scientific Reports - Biosynthesis of Co3O4 nanomedicine by using Mollugo oppositifolia L. aqueous leaf extract and its antimicrobial, mosquito larvicidal activities

More complete and sophisticated collection of genome sequences captures significantly more human diversity. Researchers have released a new high-quality collection of reference human genome sequences that captures substantially more diversity from different h…

Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole.

A popular story holds that a chance encounter with a parrot allowed an explorer to preserve a dead language. But is it true?

A team of astrophysicists and citizen scientists have identified what may be some of the last planets NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope observed during its nearly decade-long mission.

As Enceladus orbits rapidly around Saturn with a period of only 1.37 Earth days, the ejected water vapor is spread along and around its orbit, forming a large torus around the gas giant.

Theoretical calculations involving the strong force are complex in part because of the large number of ways these calculations can be performed. These options i

How do you weigh a galaxy? It's an astronomical challenge, particularly if it's the galaxy you call home. It turns out there are several ways to get a handle on the mass of the Milky Way, and a recent study posted on the arXiv pre-print server summarizes thes…