Mike Massimino hopes that people can see themselves in his tales from orbit, including a nearly disastrous blunder fixing the Hubble telescope

The Supergalactic Plane we are located in doesn't have many spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. Astronomers think they finally know why galaxies like ours are so rare.

The story goes that the sight of the blue orb rising from behind the Moon caught the Apollo 8 crew off-guard.

For the first time ever, scientists have studied the genome of Sosnowsky's hogweed, a poisonous invasive plant whose juice causes skin burns. They found that its genome has nearly twice as many genes as most other plants. The study is published in The Plant J…

"With manned missions to outer space planned for the coming years, this work indicates that sexual health should be closely monitored in astronauts upon their return to Earth."

One giant planet. Three icy moons. An eight-year journey. One special spacecraft.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a series of meetings beginning Monday, Nov. 27, with key government

NASA unveiled an image of the Milky Way, showing greater detail of a region close to the nucleus of the galaxy plus mysterious structures.

NASA’s powerful infrared space telescope detected the molecules as WASP-80 b orbited its parent star once every three days.

Will dodos roam the forests of Mauritius once again?

The Rocket City's deep roots in the space program continue to grow as NASA prepares to return to the moon and eventually venture to Mars.News 19 is North Ala...

Since becoming operational last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has made groundbreaking observations involving some of the universe’s earliest galaxies. One might call them galactic infa…

University of Oxford researchers, in partnership with Trillium Technologies' NIO.space, have developed a tool to automatically detect methane plumes on Earth from orbit using machine learning with hyperspectral data. This could help identify excessive "super …

Study Suggests Plants Could , Play an Even Bigger Role , in Fighting Climate Change. 'Newsweek' reports that research suggests plants may be even better at removing carbon dioxide from

Named ’Amaterasu’ particle after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, the second-most powerful cosmic ray has energy equivalent to ”dropping a brick on one’s toe from waist’s height”, the international team of physicists mentioned in their study published i…

Nature Genetics - Age-associated transcriptional stress due to accelerated elongation and increased stalling of RNAPII

Astronomers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and elsewhere report the discovery of 63 new giant radio galaxies as part of the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm survey (FIRST). The findings are detailed in a paper published Nov. 15 on the pre-…

The design utilizes a "sky crane" system, mimicking the way Perseverance was brought to Mars.

As biocatalysts, enzymes can make many chemical processes "greener" and open up promising opportunities for various industries from pharmaceuticals to environmental technology. New analytical methods, the enormous increase in data volumes and machine learning…

The Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket's single Vulcain 2.1 engine was fired up for a long duration test on Nov. 23, 2023 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Gu...

New Discoveries Shed Light on Earth's Internal Water Cycle - CityLife

Microbial sequence databases contain a wealth of information about enzymes and other molecules that could be adapted for biotechnology. But these databases have grown so large in recent years that they�ve become difficult to search efficiently for enzymes o…

Alien worlds: Astronomers discover two new hot Jupiters. Heres all about these exoplanets

China aims to launch its Mars sample-return mission in the 2028-2030 timeframe.

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the incredible image of galaxy M87 and its giant jet.M87, a...