A team of medical researchers at Charité has analyzed damage by focused high energetic X-rays in bone samples from fish and mammals at BESSY II.

The science data from the solar-powered spacecraft’s most recent flyby of Jupiter and its moon Io appears to be intact.

Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet’s coldest season.

In the not-too-distant future, a planetary scientist will open up a tube of rocks that came from Mars.

After an intrepid, decade-long search, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a new role for a pair of enzymes that regulate genome function and, when missing or mutated, are linked to diseases such as brain tumors, blood cancers and Kleefstra …

Even the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the Perseverance rover's rock sample tube looks like it belongs in a galaxy far, far away.

Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a molecular "clamping" mechanism within a male-specific protein-DNA complex whose mutation causes sex reversal: children with XY chromosomes but female bodies, a condition called Swyer Syn…

NASA provided an update Thursday on a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station.

A new map of the island’s underworld provides a valuable window into the behavior of some of the most capricious, and hazardous, volcanoes on Earth

A new study from researchers at Michigan State University underscores that we still have much to learn regarding how plants will function—and how nutritious they will be—as more carbon enters our atmosphere.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on Wednesday retired its Mars InSight lander, 4 years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet.

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio installed a new solar array outside the International Space Station on Thursday. Meanwhile, Russian spacewalks are on hold as a crew troubleshoots issues with the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth's orbital neighborhood, NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review. Now the mission is t…

Only two more new solar arrays to be installed after successful spacewalk.

Officials at NASA and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, are working to decide how to bring home several people at the International Space Station after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft sprang a leak last week.

<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk blasted a former software engineer for the company as a &ldquo;jackass&rdquo; during a heated spat over the mogul&rsquo;s push to revamp the embattled social media app.</p>

A rare fossil of a dining dinosaur is shedding new light on ancient ecosystems and behaviours.  “It’s one of the few things that really give you an idea of ecology and behaviour in the fossil record,” said University of Alberta paleontologist Corwin Sullivan,…

How would our world be viewed by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? Such a picture would be clearly different from what we encounter every day. "We should expect to see not only phenomena that happen spontaneously, without a deterministic cause, …

Magma pumping through a massive complex of flat, interconnected chambers deep beneath volcanoes in Hawai'i appears to be responsible for an unexplained swarm of tiny earthquakes felt on the Big Island over the past seven years, in particular since the 2018 er…

When a black hole eats a star, it creates an intricate portrait of light. That can tell astrophysicists a lot about what's going on.

In the wake of a Soyuz coolant loss, NASA and Roscosmos still exploring options.

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