JPL’s website is nominated, along with NASA’s Eyes on Asteroids and the “On a Mission” podcast, which are both produced at JPL. Public voting is open through April 20.

In a pair of complementary studies, researchers took a close look at Luna moth (Actias luna) tails through the eyes of birds and female moths to test the tails' role in predation and sexual selection. Scientists have known for about a decade that Luna moths—a…

The second stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket captured an amazing view of Earth during the launch of the Intelsat 40e satellite on April 7, 2023. Watch the la...

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As a philosopher of science, Alisa Bokulich grapples with weighty questions like, how can scientific models represent a system as complex as the Earth? How can we reconstruct Earth's 4.5-billion-year history using only the few traces of data left in the prese…

Researchers have completed the most advanced brain map to date, that of an insect, a landmark achievement in neuroscience that brings scientists closer to true

Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.

Using artificial intelligence, an international team analyzed the chemical composition of extremely metal-poor stars, finding that the first stars in the Universe were likely born in groups rather than individually. This method will be applied to future obser…

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The moon is covered with little glass beads, each containing a tiny bit of water, which could add up to huge reserves for future missions.

New instruments and plans for a seventh telescope at Georgia State's CHARA Array will allow scientists to see the stars in greater detail than ever before. The update comes after a group of international scientists gathered in Atlanta to take part in the 2023…

A huge cloud of hydrogen gas blew up a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur V upper stage, not far from where Blue Origin was testing its engines.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are hard at work on research guided by students and researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder.

A portable diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) method can perform pre-symptomatic detection of late blight disease in potato leaves.

The process being used to verify precious packages from space is also destroying one of the most valuable things about some of them.

It was a good week for physics research as a small international team of physicists recreated the famous double-slit experiment that proved the wave nature of light—this time, using slits in time rather than space. A group at the Cornell University Center for…

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Hidden stripes in a crystal could help scientists understand the mysterious behavior of electrons in certain quantum systems, including high-temperature superconductors, an unexpected discovery by RIKEN physicists suggests.

A new electron-scattering experiment challenges our understanding of the first excited state of the helium nucleus.

Kosec et al. analyse X-ray spectroscopic observations of outflowing hot material from an accreting neutron star. An innovative technique reveals the vertical distribution of the outflow structure, which is challenging to measure otherwise.

Selected projects will receive $600,000 in funding from NASA to move them forward. Image: NASA+

A team of geologists from the University of Roma Tre, has solved the mystery of why the bodies of people living in Herculaneum, were not well preserved after they were killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In their paper published in the journal Scientifi…

If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection.

The University of Wisconsin – Madison shared satellite photos.