NASA’s new lunar program is in full swing, thanks to the successful launch and return of the Artemis 1 mission...

The Solar System as we know it doesn’t really make sense without a ninth planet. So then why can’t we find it?

The Hubble Space Telescope captured mysterious features on Saturn's rings, signaling the start of the planet's "spoke season."

Freshwater ecosystems and their key component freshwater plants together provide a myriad of key ecosystem services to our society. Yet, global climate change is exerting unprecedented forces on freshwater plants and their ecosystems.

A X1.1 solar flare erupted from the sun over the weekend, one of the strongest types of flare our star can produce.

The Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth by a future mission.

A recent technical report in Nature Cell Biology has introduced a novel method to examine specific alterations in DNA following replication. Scientists have devised a highly sensitive, quantitative method utilizing mass spectrometry known as iDEMS (isolation …

Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay the launch of a spacecraft that's meant to replace one deemed not safe enough to transport astronauts after a second vehicle — a cargo ship — sprang a coolant leak over the weekend.

Some scientists are proposing radical ways to cool our warming planet – but others say it’s time to restore nature on a global scale

Whether the light in our living spaces is on or off can be regulated in everyday life simply by reaching for the light switch. However, when the space for the l

A team of virologists at Aix–Marseille University, has found evidence that suggests the giant virus Pandoravirus neocaledonia evolved from smaller and simpler viruses. In their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the group used a modified v…

The 3D-printed, laser-cut hardware performed on par with expensive, state-of-the-art semiconductor plasma sensors that were manufactured in a cleanroom. By contrast, the 3D-printed sensors can be produced for tens of dollars in a matter of days.

Scientists from Korea and Hawaii have given accurate estimates for how meltwater from Earth's two ice sheets could add to sea levels by 2150.

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)—an astronomical interferometer of 66 telescopes in northern Chile, captured an exquisite image of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star known as Elias 2-24—but scientists noticed a mysterious hole in the …

The mature human brain weighs three pounds, and despite the amazing parallel processing power and still-indistinguishable-from-magic sorcery it possesses,

In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars, orbit relatively close to our star.

A novel 3D graphene-nanowire 'sandwich' enables a wide variety of electronic systems to operate at a lower temperature with higher performance.

Astronomers have long been aware that planetary systems are not necessarily structured like our solar system. Researchers from the Universities of Bern and Geneva, as well as from the National […]

Isaac Newton is credited with first formulating a theory of gravity in the latter half of the 17th century – apparently inspired by an apple falling from a tree – but fundamental aspects of gravity's pull were also recognized by Leonardo da Vinci...

A new grassroots effort—announced this month in Trends in Ecology and Evolution—is calling for a reevaluation of some terminology used in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) to make it more inclusive and precise. The initiative, the EEB Language Project wa…

The new study starkly lays out the high stakes involved in near-term climate policy.

Beyond the seven mountains and forests, a hungry beast was stealing away. Does this sound like a fairy tale? In reality, such a beast does exist.

A team of forestry experts at Northeast Forestry University, working with two colleagues from Zhejiang University School of Medicine, has uncovered the means by which the Chinese red-headed centipede is able to detect sunlight despite having no eyes or even p…

The launch of an uncrewed replacement Soyuz capsule to the ISS will have to wait, as investigators sort out the cause of a second coolant leak.