New England Wildlife Center (NEWC) were helping a small owl on the side of a busy road in Massachusetts, when they noticed something wrong with his eyes.

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look everywhere all at once."

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is one step closer to history as the Orion spacecraft powers up for its crewed journey around the Moon.

A new nuclear clock, which uses the low-energy transition in the nucleus of a thorium-229 atom, could help detect the most elusive particle in the universe.

The unusual object bares a striking resemblance to a witch’s hat.

In everyday life, continuously doing work on a system is found to heat it up. Rubbing your hands together warms them. Hammering a piece of metal makes it hot. Even without knowing the equations, we learn from experience: driving any system, whether by stirrin…

Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another. By turning on a single gene in insulin-producing neurons, the team successfully made a species of fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) perform …

In a new study led by Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a cyclocarbon that is stable enough for spectroscopic characterization in solution at room temperature. The study is published in the journal Scienc…

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole.

Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA.

In the not-too-distant future, the search for signs of life on Mars and the moon could see the next generation of robots exploring a new frontier: subsurface lava tubes. These missions could also help us determine the best locations for establishing human bas…

Moonquakes pose little risk to astronauts during a mission lasting just a few days. But their effects on longer-term lunar surface assets could be significant.

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip — but could you live your life among the stars? Let us know in our latest poll.

VA Tech experiment was inspired by Death Valley’s mysterious “sailing stones” at Racetrack Playa.

The Kyoto team demonstrates that sperm tails use “odd elasticity,” breaking classical symmetry and increasing their propulsion.

Photophoresis can generate a tiny bit of lift without any moving parts.

In a new study published in Nature Physics, scientists have achieved the first experimental observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals.

Since the trapping and removal of cats from Japan's Ogasawara Islands, a native animal has recovered from the brink of extinction.

While clearing debris from the devastating floods in Texas in July, volunteers uncovered 15 large dinosaur footprints thought to belong to a formidable prehistoric predator.

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct Denisovan populations helped shape traits like high-altitude …

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month. It’s what’s known as a planetary parade and it’s the last one of the year. These fairly common linkups happen when several planets appear to line up in the night sky at once. Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and a fain…

The US Space Force, in partnership with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and SpaceX, is making final preparations to launch the eighth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.

Mosaic showing the surface of Mars stitched together using 96 images taken by Perseverance at a location known as 'Falbreen'.

This is SpaceX's 11th contracted mission for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.