According to NASA, the supermoon will appear at around 9:36pm or 6:36pm PT or during the early hours of August 12 around 1:30am. EDT.

Primordial black holes have a negligible effect on star formation. Cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations used to study gravity hydrodynamics, chemistry and cooling in structure formation and early star formation. XSEDE-allocated Stampede2 supercompute…

Researchers from ETH Zurich discover the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases from the Earth’s mantle. The discovery represents a significant piece of the puzzle towards understanding how the Moon and, potentially, the Earth a…

The SETI Institute’s Board of Trustees elected Dr. Stephen Trimberger as a new member at its meeting on July 29, 2022. Trimberger is a Silicon Valley technology veteran and a holder of approximately 250 patents. He joins the SETI Institute’s Board of Trustee…

A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one color from …

The worst effects of global warming on the world’s largest ice sheet could be avoided if nations around the world succeed in meeting climate targets outlined in the Paris Agreement.

Tectonic plate movement could have provided oxygen to some of world's earliest life forms, suggests study by scientists at Newcastle University, UK, published in Nature Communications.

A stretch of DNA that hops around the human genome plays a role in premature aging disorders, scientists at the Salk Institute and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have discovered.

With the technological advances in telescope instrumentation and software capabilities, it became necessary to streamline the observation process.

Discovery by Brazilian researchers featured on cover of the journal Nanoscale is noteworthy because of possible applications in next-generation electronic devices.

Layered double hydroxides are 2-dimensional nanomaterials that have a wide range of applications in many different fields. They can be found in nature or created in a lab with different properties that can make them useful in different ways. For example, they…

A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during the course of the mammoth’s evolution. The researchers note that their findings have implications for international efforts to resurrect extinct species, including the …

NASA has warned of a potentially hazardous asteroid will zoom past Earth at over 20,000 MPH later this week.

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now -- and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.

The largest animals to ever walk the earth, giant sauropods dominated world ecosystems for 100 million years. New research indicates soft ‘heel pads’ helped them reach their stature.

LONDON, Aug 11 — The world’s biggest ice sheet could cause “several metres” of sea-level rise over centuries if the global temperature rises more than 2°C, according to a...

Global mean sea level has risen 101 millimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992, and it continues to do so at 3.9 mm (0.15 inches) per year.

Some internet users questioned a colorful image posted on Twitter that a French scientist said was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Among the many payloads being discussed will be Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, which NASA JPL co-manages with the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

The Curiosity Rover has been gathering data from Mars and sending it back to scientists on Earth for 11 years. In that time, it's traveled more than 28 kilometres and gained 609 metres in elevation at Mount Sharp on the Martian surface.

In a new study, researchers described ecological firewalls (EFWs) to contain synthetic microbes.

<p>A palaeontologist confirms it’s from an extinct fish that lived 60-million years ago </p>

In a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers define how the circadian clock influences cell growth, metabolism and tumor progression. Their research also reveals how disruption of the circadian clock impacts genome stability and mutations …

A meteor shower you won't want to miss. Gary Boyle, The Backyard Astronomer, tells us we are currently passing...

It looks like an aurora, but remains a phenomenon "completely unknown" to science.