The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucía (IAA) of the State Agency Spanish Research Council (CSIC) has finished the deployment of the BOOTES Network (Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System), the first network of robotic telescopes with stati…

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has completed the Mission Critical Design Review and is on track to meet its scheduled 2025 launch. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is managing the payload office, providing the scientif…

Ninety researchers from 26 countries, part of the eLTER PPP and eLTER PLUS projects, gathered in Mallorca from 16 to 20 May 2022 for the first ever consortia physical meeting. This was a great opportunity to capture the spirit of the projects, so a profession…

Men are more likely to interpret any information about an investment opportunity “optimistically” and can more easily be persuaded into making risky financial decisions, suggests new research from the Rady School of Management at the University of California …

The Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, announces its 2023 essay competition: "How Could Science Be Different?" Since its inception in 2006, FQxI has awarded US$400,000 in prizes in 10 essay competitions, to 191 winners, on topics ranging from the nature …

Nobody on Earth has fingerprints quite like yours.

Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have uncovered new insights into the cuttlefish brain, offering an explanation for the marine animal's unique ability to camouflage. The neuroscientists have created t…

Asteroid 16 Psyche is unusual because, while most are made of rock and ice, this one is mostly made of metal. NASA plans to explore it

Scientists have discovered the tell-tale signs of a range of dinosaur diseases – and found that they're remarkably similar to those affecting animals alive today.

An observatory station in South Africa is one of the last two to be installed in a now-completed network that allows scientists across the world to monitor the night sky around the clock.The Burst Obs...

On Feb. 14 and 15, the Northern Lights will put on a dazzling display for many skygazers located at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.

The software needs a substantial amount of human help, but the resulting parts can be better than human design alone.

A "super bolide" exploded over Russia in 2013, injuring 1,500 people and damaging hundreds of buildings. It may not be a once-in-a-century event as previously thought.

NASA first caught a strange polar vortex on the solar north pole. A big eruption and flare followed, as the sun builds to maximum activity.

Before Galileo, Newton and Einstein, there was a man named Leonardo da Vinci.

Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago, is one of only five such meteorites that have been observed during their descent to our planet. An international team of researchers, led by Philippe Schmitt-K…

Theoretically printable within living tissue, these tiny objects are assembled at the focal point of ultrasonic sound waves.

A facial approximation reveals what Zuzu, a man who lived 9,600 years ago in Brazil, may have looked like.

Definitive proof that fingerprints are a unique biometric at birth has been published by a team of academic researchers in the journal Cell.

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

The 10 sample tubes are strewn about the Three Forks region of Jezero Crater.

Sketches made in the early 1500s by Leonardo da Vinci show experiments to explain gravity - and with 97% accuracy. This means the famed Italian understood the concept before Isaac Newton.

NASA and ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is investigating a "fascinating magic trick of nature."

Surfing sensation Nathan Florence recently decoded his freefall from a nasty double-up that resulted in a back injury. What's the update on his injury?

The agency stitches together 368 images to document the Perseverance rover's epic Mars sample depot.