Scientists analyze best ways to build spacecraft landing pads on the moon and propose melting lunar soil with microwaves as the most cost-effective method.

The unusual tidal disruption happened with a star that is 250 million light-years away.

Scientists from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), the Universitat de Barcelona, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and other European research centers have found that cold-water coral reefs—similar to those located in tropical areas but found at gre…

China's upcoming Chang'e 6 mission will include four international projects, including tools to measure solar winds and a noble gas leaking from the surface.

Two years ago, China’s Chang’e 5 mission made history by returning lunar samples to Earth for the first time in...

Scientists believe the answer for building viable space habitats could lie in asteroids enveloped in flexible bags.

A team led by researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has developed a new mathematical model to study changes in ecological interactions between microbe populations. One of the conclusions they have…

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have found two new human-specific ‘microgenes’ that arose from scratch.

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A chunk of Russian space junk came uncomfortably close to the International Space Station early Wednesday, resulting in a debris...

Using the radial velocity (RV) method, an international team of astronomers has discovered two new exoplanets transiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as GJ 1002. The newfound alien worlds have masses similar to that of our planet and orbit the host star in its…

NASA’s moon mission finally got underway in a year jam packed with major steps forward in space exploration.

The launch of a European rocket carrying two Earth observation satellites failed and ditched in the sea less than three minutes after liftoff from a spaceport in French Guiana on Wednesday.

One lone star got a little too close to a black hole recently.

New research suggests that stranded dolphins may be tragically suffering from Alzheimer's disease — a possible boon to the "sick leader" theory.

The Ursids meteor shower will peak on the night of December 21 through the early morning hours of December 22 and can be seen from anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere.

In plants, the cells that form the internal structure of leaves start out as tightly compacted spheres in the early stages of leaf development. As the leaf develops and expands, these cells take on new shapes and loosen up. Yet the leaf's microstructure remai…

ROME/PARIS :An investigation is being launched after the latest version of Italy's Vega C rocket failed on its second mission, destroying two Earth-imaging satellites and further complicating Europe's access to space on top of the war in Ukraine.Launch firm A…

Over the past ten years, the DNA sequencing revolution has revealed that mating between two different species, i.e., hybridization, once considered rare, is actually widespread across the tree of life. This came as a surprise—hybridization was considered most…

The Last Earthquake Recorded on Mars Broke The Record: It Lasted 10 Hours New research has revealed that the record-magnitude earthquake that shook Mars in May of this year was at least five times lar

A planet spiralling into dying star may tell us about how Earth will be destroyed

The tidal disruption event provided astronomers with an "unprecedented view" of how a corona is formed and evolves.

Unusual fossil reveals more about the diet of Microraptor, a bird-like dinosaur with four wings.

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After 15 months of drilling carefully selected bits of the red planet, the robot is beginning the process of setting up a "sample depot" where the future sample return lander will be able to pick up the rover's titanium rock core tubes.