The minor planet has a ring surrounding it. But the ring’s properties are surprising some astronomers.

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The FDA can now approve drugs that haven't been tested in animals, but don't expect drug companies to switch gears too quickly.

The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary spacecraft is expanding its studies at Mars to include flybys of the planet’s small outer moon, Deimos.

According to a recent study, scientists have found a secret layer of partially molten rock roughly 100 miles beneath the surface of the Earth. This

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of Pandora's Cluster, a megacluster of galaxies that allowed astronomers to peer into the distant universe and observe never-before-seen details.

In a study published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, researchers used computer simulations to explore how herd animals can reduce their predation risk. The study is based on the idea suggested by W.D. Hamilton in 1971, that individuals in a herd positi…

Asteroid (199145) 2005 YY128 will pass by Earth at a distance of 2.5 million miles on Feb. 15, but will pose no threat to our planet.

This relatively recently discovered comet will make its closest approach to the sun on Sunday, Feb. 18.

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have shed new light on the behaviour of coastlines during different phases of the El-Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle.

Scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) have identified the nature of thousands of new cosmic objects in X-ray wavelengths using machine learning techniques. Machin…

"We had to remind ourselves that this was real data, and we are working in a new era of astronomy now."

There should be far more of these dark dwarfs according to modern theory. But without any stars they're extremely hard to detect.

Melting of the Florida-sized glacier is of grave concern, with the potential for significant global sea level rise.

The small robot has captured footage of what is impacting the Thwaites ice shelf.

Researchers evaluate the documented clinical effects of light therapy, with a focus on the use of laser and LED light in the three species.

Astronomers quickly and accurately calculated the approximate time and place the meteor would impact the atmosphere over Europe.

Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, he was a post-doc investigating a theoretical model with emergent particles in a condensed matter setting. Once he arrived at Purdue, he intended to e…

Spinosaur brains reveal how they interacted with their environment • Earth.com

Black holes could be reserves of the dark energy that pushes the universe apart

A comprehensive modeling study indicates the extent to which climate change threatens marine ecosystems and their biodiversity. According to the study, the core habitats of a large proportion of marine species could not only shift poleward, but also shrink si…

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis starts in Promethei Terra and empties into Hellas Plainitia.

NASA has released a composite of hundreds of images showing the locations of samples collected by the Perseverance Mars rover.

In a study recently published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists, including Sang-Heon Dan Shim and Suyu Fu of Arizona State University, have completed an experimental observation of silicon-rich crystal formation in iron-hydrogen alloy liquid at high…

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first signs of "spoke season", the appearance of mysterious spokes — or in this case blobs — in Saturn's rings. So what causes them?