After the establishment of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s first major assignment was to explore the moon, taking close-up images before crash landing as part of a series of missions called Ranger. JPL, however, had grander plans. The laboratory, having…

While dust contributes to air pollution, it has an unexpected positive impact in helping keep the planet just a little cooler, research shows.

Study at the University of Bonn elucidates previously unknown mechanism for spatial learning. There are two fundamentally different cell types in the brain, neurons, and glial cells. One purpose of the latter is to insulate the "wiring" of nerve cells or guar…

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus isn't only suspected to hold a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust — it's also covered in an astonishing amount of snow.

Cislunar space could become strategically important with renewed interest in the moon, potentially opening up competition over resources and sparking...

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata completed the first spacewalk at the ISS of 2023 on Friday. The 7 hours and 21-minute-long spacewalk continued the ongoing work to install six ISS Roll-Out Solar …

It is new moon tomorrow. The next few evenings will be devoid of moonlight, making them prime time for stargazing. While there are relatively few...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Dr Bert O'Malley's group reveal a novel key aspect of the mechanism of gene expression regulation in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings not only contribute to a b…

When scientists determined in the mid-1970s that the Mistastin crater in Labrador had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo mission had flown and it was too late for astronauts to take advantage of the site for training.

Volcanic rock is everywhere on Mars, but you've never seen it like this.

NANAIMO - It'll take some searching, but a once-in-a-lifetime comet is making its way across our night sky.The...

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A researcher at the University of British Columbia unveiled payloads of baker's yeast sent on a recent trip to the moon that could one day protect astronauts from cosmic radiation.

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Many flowers, whether mallow, foxglove, or forget-me-not, feature vibrant patterns that are known in biology as nectar cues. They are thought to direct pollinating insects to the nectary as quickly as possible. This guiding activity could boost the insects' c…

Two physicists find that our universe has a higher entropy—and is therefore more likely—than alternative possible universes.

Seven years ago the mobile game "Pokemon Go" took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same "real-world" appeal into their new basketball game.

Scientists in Tanzania and Kenya are training rats to detect tuberculosis and provide much quicker diagnoses than conventional testing methods READ MORE : ht...

Government's broken promisesCTU blames government for power cuts during examsSecretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union Joseph Stalin charged that the governmen...

An analysis of eight years of data reveals a possible telltale sign that a region of the sun is about to erupt.

Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know. The researchers say they can better understand the state of the cosmos shortly after the Big Bang by lea…

Lockheed Martin developed a satellite-based augmentation system that leverages the L1C signal that is interoperable with both GPS and Galileo

At least three missions will go to Venus over the next 10 years.

During the conjunction Venus and Saturn will be so close together that the planets will be able to be seen with a telescope.

According to recent research, OYEs in microalgae utilise photosynthesis for energy.