Muscida (Omicron (ο) Ursae Majoris), the star that represents the nose of the Great Bear.

Four Expedition 68 astronauts are midway through their bone research activities this week helping doctors improve treatment for bone conditions on and off the Earth. The three cosmonauts living aboard the International Space Station kept up their physics rese…

According to research, marine bacteria can undergo a lifestyle switch from coexistence to pathogenicity, where they kill their phytoplankton hosts.

During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites — including one of the largest ever found on the continent. The rare mete

Findings from the study of space dust from a distant "rubble pile" asteroid could help scientists understand how to protect our planet from cosmic threats.

Scientific Reports - Complete chloroplast genome molecular structure, comparative and phylogenetic analyses of Sphaeropteris lepifera of Cyatheaceae family: a tree fern from China

Another success for the HL-LHC magnet programme: after the successful endurance test of a 4.2-metre-long niobium–tin quadrupole magnet in the United States in spring 2022, the HL-LHC quadrupole’s longer version proved its worth later in the year. “MQXFBP3”, t…

Despite their small size, insects can be phenomenal jumpers, capable of leaping many times their body length with astonishing speed. Researchers have now successfully mimicked these capabilities in a miniature robot that can store a large amount of p

Good luck blowing up a pile of rubble. Boffins suggest we'll need to create a diversion instead

UT researchers led a study identifying dinosaur fossils found in Patagonia, a region spanning southern Argentina and Chile, providing new insights into the period of time right before the mass extinction. The study examined fossils of theropods, a diverse cla…

A laser is sent down a UMD hallway in an experiment to corral light as it makes a 45-meter journey.

RNA viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, are in a life-and-death race the moment they infect a cell.

In a recent paper accepted to Contemporary Physics, a physicist from Imperial College London uses past missions and recent findings to encourage the importance of searching for life in the atmosphere of the solar system’s most inhospitable planet, Venus. This…

It seems that the blueprint for complex brain development remains the same, despite 500 million years of divergent evolution.

<p>A huge asteroid will sweep by Earth this week in our fourth-closest call with one of the space objects on record. </p>

The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest, coldest regions of a molecular cloud measured to date has been announced by an international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Spa ...

The technology could allow astronauts to travel to and from deep space much faster, potentially enabling crewed missions to Mars in the future.

Amanda Souza 5 hours ago 7 minutes The light from the sky is now reflected...

It would let astronauts journey to and from deep space faster than ever, NASA said.

China plans to use its new China Compound Eye facility in Chongqing to observe asteroids and Earth-like planets hundreds of millions of kilometers away as part of its planetary defense work.

Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft is all ready to embark on an eight-year odyssey through the Solar System to find out whether the oceans hidden under the surface of Jupiter's icy moons have the potential to host extraterrestrial life.

Understanding the neural interface within the brain is critical to understanding aging, learning, disease progression and more. A newly developed, pop-up electrode device could gather more in-depth information about individual neurons and their interactions w…

With long-duration missions ahead, astronauts will need extra support in managing the behavioral effects of isolation, confinement and distance from home. Researchers in the Texas A&M Department of Aerospace Engineering are working to address this concern by …

The occurrence of chemical reactions between like-charged compounds in aqueous solutions is very slow since particles repel each other. A recent breakthrough published in Nature Communications entitled “Effective screening of Coulomb repulsions in water accel…