The Northern Lights were seen as far south as the Texas Panhandle over the weekend due to a strong geomagnetic storm.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See it's journey to the asteroid in this orbit anim...

30 years ago astronauts embarked on ambitious mission to fix Hubble ... and NASA's reputation

Preparations for a safe landing on Earth, such as finding the most even terrain and equipping the appropriate landing gear, are also crucial for Mars missions.

The satellites are part of the agency’s SunRISE mission, which will study the physics behind explosions that the Sun generates. Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE)…

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In a recent study, scientists led by Professor Stefan Müller from Goethe University's Institute of Biochemistry II investigated a specific form of blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia, or AML.

A star near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy originated outside the galaxy according to a new study published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B. This is the first time a star of extragalactic origin has been found …

The long winter nights make sky watchers jobs a whole lot easier. From planets on parade to meteor showers, December 2023 will be active in the night sky.Sub...

A subtle, if temporary, change to one of the world’s biggest websites underscored a modern triumph of paleontology, and how we understand life on Earth.

Decades-old reserves of carbon brought centuries-old buds to life

Astronomers have detected a young star outside of our milky way galaxy that may be forming a new planet.

Eris is a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet discovered in January 2005 by Caltech astronomer Michael Brown and colleagues at Palomar Observatory.

The universe undergoes expansion, and the rate of this expansion is characterized by the Hubble-Lemaitre constant.

There's a valuable payload riding on the final Vega rocket launch.

Using a new phylogeny of Pseudosuchia (crocodile-line archosaurs), the authors use diversification analyses and information theory to show that the interplay of abiotic and biotic processes over hundreds of millions of years shaped evolutionary history and di…

A coronal hole high speed stream is likely to bring a geomagnetic storm our way today and tomorrow.

While we often think of diseases as caused by foreign bodies—bacteria or viruses—there are hundreds of diseases affecting humans that result from errors in cellular production of proteins.

A research team, led by scientists at the University of York, mapped the family tree of the ferocious ambush-predators and their extinct relatives known as Pseudosuchia. They then compared this with data from the fossil record to understand why crocodiles hav…

A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust.

The stars really aligned for this photographer!

The mention of magnolia, birch, or cherry wood often evokes thoughts of furniture, yet Japanese researchers have unveiled an unexpected application for wood.

Seismic data confirms ocean waves from storms have become more widespread and ferocious due to climate change, according to a study from Colorado State University that the National Science Foundation funded. Some, if not most, of my joy in life, was...

A radical theory that consistently unifies gravity and quantum mechanics while preserving Einstein's classical concept of spacetime has been announced in two papers published simultaneously by UCL (University College London) physicists.

The field of attosecond physics was established with the mission of exploring light–matter interactions at unprecedented time resolutions. Recent advancements in this field have allowed physicists to shed new light on the quantum dynamics of charge carriers i…