UCLA study overcomes the effects of Earth’s gravity, replicating conditions on other planets, stars

The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of different elements.

Just as a choreographer’s notation tells a dancer to strike a particular pose, an enzyme newly discovered by Rice University scientists is able to tell specif

The worsening climate crisis could soon obstruct the eyes of our ground-based telescopes: "We will literally have less to look at."

What does it mean to “be-in-kind” with a nonhuman animal?

Launched on July 24, 1992, on a four-year primary mission, Geotail was extended multiple times.

Scientific Reports - Poverty from fetal life onward and child brain morphology

An international team has been able to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of a major group of snakes, Elapoidea, that has proved to be a significant step towards the construction of a complete Tree of Life for snakes.

In 2022, NASA-developed Search and Rescue technologies saved 367 lives in the U.S. region. Since 1979, NASA has provided technical expertise to the Cospas-Sarsat program, the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort. This technical expertise has…

For adults with neurodevelopmental disorders, preliminary findings reveal a positive impact of virtual and augmented reality on functional performance, according to a review published online Dec. 14 in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

A transient atmospheric feature with the distinct appearance of a spiral galaxy is being linked to the launch of a GPS satellite.

Last week, astronomers at a Hawaiian observatory spotted a spiral-like structure over Maunakea. A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Chen Tao from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed the formation and evolution of the point defect of antimony selenosulfide. This work was published …

The Webb telescope team has detected water ice and frozen complex molecules in a molecular cloud about 630 light-years from...

Shrimps, flies and other animals shed their outer body covering at specific times of the year or at specific points in their life cycles through a process called molting. Working with worms, FMI researchers identified the mechanisms underlying a molecular "mo…

The space rock will fly past our planet at only 2,500 miles above its surface while traveling at roughly 33,300 miles per hour.

Benedictine's Shingledecker worked with the James Webb Space Telescope and spoke about the origins of life at the Angelicum in Rome.

Researchers say that current measurements of black holes are insufficient to determine the formation process of these invisible giants in the universe. The way a black hole spins can provide insight into its origins, particularly for binary black holes, which…

Nighttime brightness from human activity continues to increase; now, only the brightest stars can be seen in cities

SPOP is the most mutated protein in prostate cancer and plays a role in endometrial, uterine and other cancers. Despite this importance, how SPOP mutations drive cancer has been incompletely understood.

A meteor may have killed the dinosaurs, but it seems the Sun was the real terror back in the day.

Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on earth we are related to some of these people with whom we seemingly have nothing in common (especially with a parti…

Researchers say the shift occurs about every 70 years, but experts not involved in the study point to several other theories and say many mysteries remain about the center of the Earth