The celestial highlights for the week ahead include planetary conjunctions and a last-gasp glimpse of comet C/2022 E3, a.k.a. the "green comet."

Researchers have discovered the genes and proteins responsible for the rapid withdrawal of heliozoan arms in response to changes in the environment. This is one of the fastest-known examples of cell motility. Raphidocystis contractilis is a type of eukaryote …

The team is taking a little time to work through the best strategy for drilling here, so today’s plan just focused on collecting additional contact science and remote sensing data from around the future Dinira drill target.

Astronomers have discovered an exceptionally rare system set to end in a kilonova explosion so rare we've never found one before.

The geologist Josep M. Parés, Geochronology and Geology Program Coordinator at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the lead author of a paper published in th…

While it’s still unclear if anyone was swimming in it, NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence to suggest an ancient lake sat in the foothills of a Martian mountain.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Now, astronomers say it again has the biggest number of moons.

The work to vaccinate small monkeys that live in Brazil is permitting conservationists to think about helping other animals, too.

By their own admission, Anastasios “Andy” Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers were searching for "stars behaving weirdly" when they were alerted by the Gaia survey about Gaia17bpp. The surve…

Both will appear closest together on March 1 for all to see.

An international group of researchers has achieved a 95% success rate in reproducing a commercial hybrid rice variety as a clone through seeds. This breakthrough has the potential to reduce the cost of hybrid rice seeds, making high-yielding and disease-resis…

The tomatoes were grown without soil using hydroponic and aeroponic nourishing techniques to demonstrate space agricultural methods to sustain crews on long term space flights farther away from Earth where resupply missions become impossible.

A small icy world far beyond Neptune possesses a ring like the ones around Saturn. Perplexingly, the ring is at a distance where simple gravitational calculations suggest there should be none. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The beefy behemoth waddled along the New Zealand coastline nearly 60 million years ago. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Celebrating diversity in space and technology … Some recognition for a unique mission … And a small find that is a pretty big deal … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! https://youtu.be/AfePvqIj8lc Building a Legacy of Culture and Know…

It's the clearest evidence of waves and water the Curiosity rover has ever found.

They say it would've weighed 350 pounds. That's more than an ostrich.

Canberra, Feb 12: A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth. In their plan, we would mine dust on the Moon and shoot it out tow…

New images created using data from NASA's NuSTAR telescope has given humanity a glimpse at hidden lights shows on the Sun's surface.

After unearthing its fossils in 2017, researchers now reveal a new species of penguin called Kumimanu fordycei that weighed over 340 pounds.

On its Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX launched a Tesla roadster and a mannequin wearing a spacesuit into orbit on February 6, 2018. Where is the payload five