There is a 'centremost ball' within Earth's solid inner core, according to experts at Australian National University in Canberra.

Unique microorganisms of a fossil river delta in the Atacama Desert unveil the current limits of life detection on Mars.

WASHINGTON : In Jules Verne's classic 1864 novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth," adventurers descend through an Icelandic volcano into a vast underground world populated by prehistoric creatures as they explore our planet's interior. The actual center o…

Sample return is likely our best bet to find Mars life, if it ever existed, a new study suggests.

Our home planet is seeming more like a jawbreaker the more we learn about its interior.

Researchers from the Autonomous University of Chile tested the sophisticated gadgets used by NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers in the Atacama Desert.

Researchers led by Prof. Huang Qing from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported for the first time an update and a comprehensive summary on the immunomodulatory therapies and nutritional significance of Ganoderma …

Heat causes errors in the qubits that are the building blocks of a quantum computer, so quantum systems are typically kept inside refrigerators that keep the temperature just above absolute zero (-459 degrees Fahrenheit).

Germline stem and progenitor cells (GSPCs), including primordial germ cells (PGCs) and germline stem cells (GSCs), generate various states of germ stem cells and then differentiate into specialized cells, while self-renewing to generate more stem cells. The f…

NASA officials say an odd, oblong-shaped object detected on radar was tracked by the space agency’s Deep Space Network earlier this month.

Researchers at the Shih Microfluidics Lab have developed a new method of extracting enzymes that degrade the cell walls of harmful micro-organisms such as other fungal pathogens, nematodes or other pathogens that can impact crop health.

Decoding the 2017 kilonova, when two neutron stars collided, could unlock other astrophysical mysteries

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun on Jan. 3, 2023. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the...

In a new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) show how a brain-inspired image sensor can go beyond the diffraction limit of light to detect miniscule objects such as cellular components or nanoparticles invisible to current microscopes…

Researchers have developed easy-to-use, time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy for measuring the movement of electrons in nanostructures at high temporal and spatial resolution, in a manner that will be invaluable for optimizing nanostructure performance.

“Virovores” — organisms that survive and multiply by eating viruses — might influence the flow of energy through ecosystems.

Three brightest objects in the night sky will get together early on Feb. 22 and you can watch it live via the Virtual Telescope Project.

As a cosmic photographer, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken over a million snapshots documenting the universe. These images illustrate, explain, and in...

At the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), a South Korean research group recently declared the most sophisticated experimental setup to search for axions.

China's first interplanetary mission Tianwen 1 to Mars has completed its second anniversary but the country is silent on the status of the mission's Zhurong rover.Zhurong was expected to wake up in December but Beijing and authorities have remained silent on …

We generally don’t think of plants as being intelligent. But they can learn, communicate, remember, and even make decisions in a stimulus-dependent manner. This ability allows them to modify their behavior to benefit their overall fitness, which is especially…