Scientists want to make cities on asteroids? What is the rent going to be like? What about the plumbing? The view must be great but...

After a round-trip flight to the Moon, a NASA spacecraft will finally complete its long journey in late 2022. The Orion spacecraft was on a truck bound

NASA's latest asteroid hunting spacecraft, the Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEOWISE), which will help hunt for dangerous NEO asteroids.

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new technology, called optical tweezer-assisted pool-screening and single-cell isolation (OPSI) system, which achieves 99.7% purit…

Any long-term, human-crewed mission to Mars will need power. Scientists say wind could generate power in various Martian locations.

NASA tests new engines that will be used to help power its SLS rocket in future Artemis missions.

In the spring of 2010, physicist Jari Kinaret received an email from the European Commission. The EU’s executive arm was seeking pitches from scientists for ambitious new megaprojects. ...

Planetary scientists are finding creative ways to use machine learning.

Australian wild zebra finches sing more with others around when breeding conditions are favorable. Their song also changes based on their breeding stage and it attracts other zebra finches. A possible explanation for this behavior is that birds try to influen…

Electromagnetic noise poses a major problem for communications, prompting wireless carriers to invest heavily in technologies to overcome it. But for a team of scientists exploring the atomic realm, measuring tiny fluctuations in noise could hold the key to d…

The Webb's face-on view of NGC 7469 is the telescope's picture of the month for December, but there's also a wealth of data behind it.

We may have parted ways with our primate cousins ​​millions of years ago, but a new study shows how humans continue to evolve in ways we never

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating a special archaeon and characterizing it more precisely using microscopic methods. This member of the Asgard archaea exhibits unique cellular characteristics and may represent an evolutionary 'missing link' to more co…

Human presence and influence on landscapes change the way other animals interact by bringing them close together more frequently than happens in wilder places.

A groundbreaking seismic study has uncovered a vast web of magma reservoirs some 25 miles beneath Hawaii. "My mind was just blown."

In the current issue of Nature Photonics, Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, Dr. Libo Ma and partners present a strategy for observing and manipulating the optical Berry phase in Möbius ring microcavities. In their research paper, they discuss how an optical Berry …

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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in Canada has characterized a large number of red pigment samples found on the bones of ancient people who once lived in what is now southern Peru. In their paper published in Jour…

Fireball flashes in dark sky above Alaska

The atmosphere of the Red Planet is only 1% as dense as ours, and it is cold and desolate. Mars' s...

Do manganese oxides support the theory that Mars once had more oxygen? New experiments contradict that view.

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating a special archaeon and characterizing it more precisely using microscopic methods. This member of the Asgard archaea exhibits unique cellular characteristics and may represent an evolutionary 'missing link' to more co…

NASA said there was a coolant leak in the Soyuz capsule that brought three astronauts to the International Space Station.

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating a special archaeon and characterizing it more precisely using microscopic methods. This member of the Asgard archaea exhibits unique cellular characteristics and may represent an evolutionary 'missing link' to more co…

Holiday season is space? NASA Astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata give their thoughts. Credit: NASA