NASA and ESA, the agencies which manage Hubble, released a picture of a star cluster which was named globular cluster NGC 6638. NASA said that it belonged to the constellation Sagittarius.

Invasive plant species do more than harm agriculture and native species as they reshape landscapes. They also cause economic losses of more than $20 billion annually in the U.S. alone. Identifying where and how quickly invasive plants are spreading is critica…

These events are rare and even more infrequently captured on camera.

July saw Expedition 67 aboard the International Space Station reach two-thirds distance, with two months…

A medium-sized sauropod dinosaur inhabited the tropical lowland forested area of the Serranía del Perijá in northern Colombia approximately 175 million years ago, according to a new study by an international team of researchers published in the Journal of Ver…

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps feed other marine organisms.

Supermaterial created from heated scales. Sorry about the smell

The Mid-Infrared Instrument needs to be at 7 Kelvin to work.

Photo Perseid Squadron (Source: NASA/Bill Ingalls) © ANSA/Ansa The classic rendezvous with the shooting stars of San Lorenzo, the Perseid Meteors, which

Jonathan Pober, an assistant professor of physics, was one of six early-career researchers from across the U.S. to receive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics.

A solar storm hit Earth on August 7 at 372 miles (600 km) a second. Space weather experts rated the new solar storm as G2 class.

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet could add up to 16 feet to sea levels in the long term if Paris climate accord targets aren’t met, according to a new study.

Analysis - The world's largest and heaviest living carnivore is not a big cat, a bear or a wolf: it's the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina). Bulls of this species can be 5 metres long and can weigh up to 3,500kg. The Cape fur seal, meanwhile, can grow…

who has never posted it on the fridge to remember an appointment or even that he had to go out to buy bread.

Artificial intelligence is making it more tempting than ever for unscrupulous academics to plagiarise

In a recent study published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, two researchers from Brown University demonstrated how data from past missions to Jupiter can help scientists examine dark matter, one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe. The rea…

The accelerator would smash together this heavier version of the electron and, researchers hope, discover new particles.

It was an eye-opening week for Earth science as an international team of climate researchers warned that the potential to end humanity is "dangerously underexplored." They note that unexpected consequences of climate change could result in the extermination o…

First-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from a black hole's far side finally confirm Einstein's general relativity theory.

Does the Moon inspire you to think creatively or wonder about the mysteries of the universe? NASA will soon be launching Artemis I, the first flight test of ...

For as long as humans have been sending probes to Mars, there’s been a desire to return rock, soil, and atmosphere samples back to Earth for more detailed analysis. But the physics of such a …

There are many astronauts from Michigan. Nearly all have studied or taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Going to the International Space

A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most powerful gigant…

Researchers led by Prof. Zhang Xiaoming and Prof. Chen Jinfeng from the Institute of Zoology (IOZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Prof. Qian Weiqiang from Peking University have unraveled a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)-based regulatory mechanism…

(CNN) - If you feel like there's less time in the day, you're correct. Scientists recorded the shortest day on Earth since the invention of the atomic clock. Our planet's rotation measured in at 1.59