SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket was carrying and deploying the GPS III-6 satellite. (AP)» Subscribe to...

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects—arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the Dar…

Mineral samples collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft are helping UCLA space scientists and colleagues better understand the chemical composition of our solar system as it existed in its infancy, more than 4.5 billion years ago.

The Dental Anthropology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has participated in a paper published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology on the dental remains of Homo antecessor, the species recovered f…

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way.

People expected to be able to see C/2022 E3, which hasn’t been this close to Earth in more than 50,000 years

A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany and from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has developed a revolutionary new…

Biomimetics refers to human-made processes, substances, systems, or devices that imitate nature. The art and science of designing and building biomimetic apparatus are called biomimetics. This method can be widely used in dentistry to restore the structure an…

Researchers have developed a new system for developing gene drives for areas ranging from human health to global food supplies. The new “hacking” system con

Researchers in Antarctica found the dark 17-pound space rock popping out against the snow.

Genetic variants that confer fire resistance could replace the artificial flame retardants currently added to textiles.

Everyone knows that holding two magnets together will lead to one of two results: they stick together, or they push each other apart. From this perspective, magnetism seems simple, but scientists have struggled for decades to really understand how magnetism b…

'Aurora is completely NUTS right now in Iceland!'

The first laboratory realization of the long-standing but never-before confirmed theory of the puzzling formation of planets, stars and supermassive black holes

Repeating bursts of X-rays lead scientists to a black hole that eats in spurts.

A team reveals the eventful migration history of planets bordering the Hot Neptune Desert, these extrasolar planets that orbit very close to their star.

New findings begin to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen, and they could eventually help lead future researchers to develop better earthquake models on strike-slip faults, regions with frequent and ma…

Bright green Comet ZTF may be visible to human eyes for the last time ever. Here's how, when, and why to spot it, from anywhere on Earth.

Old Yellow Enzymes (OYEs) were discovered in the 1930s and have been the subject of much research ever since. This is because these biocatalysts -- coloured yellow by an auxiliary molecule -- are capable of performing reactions that are very valuable for the …

Helga and Zohar – two female manikins of the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment (MARE) investigation – undergo post-flight payload inspections inside the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center.

Intense, extremely short-wave X-ray pulses in the nanometer wavelength range are difficult to produce, but now a new, simpler method has been developed: the starting point is not a titanium-sapphire laser, which had mostly been used for this purpose, but an y…

After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the joint NASA-JAXA Geotail spacecraft have ended, after the failure of the spacecraft's remaining data recorder.

When the rigid plates that make up Earth's lithosphere brush against one another, they often form visible boundaries, known as faults, on the planet's surface. Strike-slip faults, such as the San Andreas Fault in California or the Denali Fault in Alaska, are …

Scientists shared new findings and updates from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, also called “Webb” or “JWST,” at press conferences during the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, from Jan. 8 to 12.