Jupiter's icy moon Europa is an ocean world encased beneath a thick crust of ice -- a place where snow floats upward.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is an ocean world encased beneath a thick ice crust. Under the water, snow floats upward much like it does beneath ice shelves on Earth. These findings could inform the way NASA's Europa Clipper explores the moon when it launches in …

The subsurface of Mars records important historical information on the formation and evolution of Mars. As an ionized medium, the Martian ionosphere plays a special role in radio wave propagation and is directly related to the local communication on Mars and …

The alarm goes off in the morning. You catch your morning train to the office. You take a lunch break. You catch your evening train back. You go for an hour's run. Eat dinner. Go to bed. Repeat. Birthdays are celebrated, deaths commemorated. New countries are…

Thanks to 26 teams of observers, spotting a star blink out showed that asteroid Polymele has a moon.

Scientific Reports - The evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration

The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection.

It's all about dinosaurs in this special edition of Future Genius: Discover the diversity amongst dinosaurs and learn all about how these prehistoric creatures lived.

It's like someone spilled ectoplasm all over Earth.

How dinosaurs supported their bodies is a very interesting mystery. How could an animal with a very large body really live?

The subsurface of Mars records important historical information on the formation and evolution of Mars. As an ionized medium, the Martian ionosphere plays a spe

Figures released by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee show the number of burglaries in Laois has declined dramatically in the past decade.  A factor in that decline in more recent years may have been the Covid lockdown, as burglars would have been deterred b…

The diversity of vegetation configuration is the key to ecological restoration in open-pit coal mine dump. However, the recovery outcomes of different areas with the same vegetation assemblage pattern are completely different after long-term evolution. Theref…

Metabolic diseases, including diabetes, fatty liver, and obesity, have become a major "killer" affecting human health. Studies have shown that some orphan receptors could be targets for the treatment of these diseases. GPR119, also known as glucose-dependent …

The immune system of vertebrates is a powerful weapon against external pathogens and cancerous cells. T cells play a curcial role in this context.

In the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, deep-ocean water upwells to the surface, where it releases carbon dioxide that entered the ocean prior to the Industrial Revolution. This process is a key component of the global carbon cycle, and recent research has sug…

A Skoltech research team led by Professor Artem R. Oganov has discovered why some hydrocarbons are abundant in nature and easy to synthesize, while others are not. They used "magicity" as a measure for assessing the stability of molecules with respect to mole…

Professor Sujan Sengupta and his graduate student Suman Saha have developed an analytical model that uses the radius and orbital properties of the host planet and its moon as parameters to model the photometric transit light curve of moon-hosting exoplanets

A newly-discovered walking shark that breaks all of the rules for survival is the focus of a new study that examined differences in walking and swimming in neonate (newly-hatched) and juvenile walking sharks. Despite dissimilarities in body shapes -- neonates…

Oceans have their own unique soundscape. Many marine organisms, for example, use sound for echolocation, navigation or communication with conspecifics. In recent decades, however, more and more sounds caused by human activities are permeating the waters. A st…

NASA's 45th anniversary Voyager mission webcast will begin at 7 p.m. PDT (10 p.m. EDT/0200 GMT).

A newly discovered impact crater below the seafloor hints at the possibility that more than one asteroid hit Earth during the time when dinosaurs went extinct.

Applying CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, scientists have developed a new technology aimed at Drosophila suzukii, the invasive fruit fly responsible for millions of dollars in crop damage. The technology replaces the need for insecticides…

A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions.

Swarms of microrobots injected into the human body could unblock internal medical devices and avoid the need for further surgery, according to new research from the University of Essex.