An international collaboration of scientists has created and observed an entirely new class of vortices -- the whirling masses of fluid or air. A new article details laboratory studies of these 'exotic' whirlpools in an ultracold gas of atoms at temperatures …

Scientific Reports - Evolutionary diversification of epidermal barrier genes in amphibians

A new animation shows what Rocket Lab's totally-reusable rocket will look like when it starts sending satellites to space.

It's been a summer with amazing views of the moon and you have one more chance to see a supermoon before the year is over.

Artemis I marks the start of a new era of space exploration back to the Moon and beyond to Mars – and NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley has helped the agency pave the path to achieve liftoff.

The private company is aiming to launch a total of 42,000 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an additional 52 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on Tuesday night, raising the...

If this foreign world really exists, it would challenge our known theories of planet formation.

“This means the fate of the world’s largest ice sheet very much remains in our hands,” says one expert

These two merging galaxies are locked in a cosmic death spiral similar to the one that binds us to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land

Researchers are exploring ways to use clay-like topsoil materials from the moon or Mars as the basis for extraterrestrial cement that could be used by astronauts to create building materials for structures in outer space. University of Delaware professor Norm…

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

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

Anthropology professors and field primatologists have documented the daily life of hundreds of the large-brained capuchin monkeys in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. They have found that female capuchin monkeys who are better integrated into social networks with other…

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…

While SpaceX may be able to manage those conjunctions with its technology, it may be more difficult for other operators of satellite constellations.

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India could be facing a water quality crisis as climate change affects the monsoon season, according to a new study from Carnegie’s Anna Michalak and Eva Sinha published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs—like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus—supported their gigantic bodies on land.

Scientific Reports - Synthesis of vacant graphitic carbon nitride in argon atmosphere and its utilization for photocatalytic hydrogen generation

Many experimentally known high-pressure ice phase are structurally very similar. Here authors elucidate the phase behaviour of the high-pressure insulating ices and reveal solid-solid transition mechanisms not known in other systems.

Scientific Reports - The effect of desflurane, isoflurane and sevoflurane on the hemoglobin oxygen dissociation curve in human blood samples

A NASA cubesat was removed from a recent rideshare launch opportunity because the spacecraft could not meet deorbiting guidelines at the end of its life.