Tibetan antelope (Rhinopithecus), blue sheep (Pseudois nayauris), and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) are wild animals living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There have been no reports of naturally occurring transmissible spongioform encephalopathies (TSEs) i…

The Earth's core is largely mysterious. Because of its extreme depth below the planet's surface, it's difficult to study.

Improvements in the number of confirmed planets and the precision of observations imply a need to better understand subtle effects that may bias interpretations of exoplanet observations.

Chinese researchers believe the Earth’s inner core may have reversed its rotation.

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Europe's JUICE 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.

It's a long-running Australian detective story. From the 1980s onwards, researchers found eggshell fragments, and on rare occasions whole eggs, exposed in eroding sand dunes within the country's arid zone (which covers most of Australia's landmass).

Say cheese, Percy. Earth is cheering your rock-collecting skills.

Project, in concert with US government agency Darpa, aims to develop pioneering propulsion system for space travel

New research led by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Joanna Blaszczak shows hypoxia in rivers and streams is generally much more prevalent across

Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Scientists are working out what time they will keep.

Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, addressing sweeping problems such as food insecurity + climate change

A new record has be broken in the search for signals in deep space. Scientists using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune, India detected a radio signal emitted by hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen is believed to be 8.8 billion years old and is the furthest…

One study suggested that the "Methuselah Star" is older than the Universe itself.

The ISME Journal - Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities

His research helped explain the evolution of dogs and showed that freeways are a barrier to bobcat and coyote migration.

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is in a white room of its manufacturer Airbus in the southwestern French city of Toulouse. But its days on this planet are numbered.

NASA announced Thursday its new Mars Sample Receiving Project office, responsible for receiving and curating the first samples returned from the Red Planet, will be located at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The safe and rapid release of Mars sa…

Without the force called friction, cars would skid off the roadway, humans couldn't stride down the sidewalk, and objects would tumble off your kitchen counter and onto the floor. Even so, how friction works at a molecular scale remains poorly understood.

In the wild orcas pose no threat to humans says James Fair

A recent study has revealed that snowy landscapes can enhance one's appreciation of their own body. New research has discovered that being in snowy landscapes can boost one's body appreciation. Prior studies have already established that being in green spaces…

The meteorite is an unassuming black rock about the size of a cantaloupe, but it weighs a whopping 8 kilograms (around 17 pounds) due to its high mineral density.

Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive enough sunlight, it stops lateral branching and instead grows v…

According to new research, 99% of the U.S. is impacted by light pollution. It's just getting harder to gaze at the stars at night as the years go by.

While challenging economic conditions this year will hit some space companies harder than others, the industry as a whole is expected to remain robust as multiple headwinds rock the sector.