Fifteen years ago in a sanctuary in Zambia, inspiration struck a chimpanzee named Julie. She plucked a stiff blade of grass, stuck it inside her ear, and left it there. There the grass dangled as Julie played, groomed, and rested. The behavior soon spread to …

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered a new state of quantum matter. The state exists within a material that the team reports could lead to a new era of self-charging computers and ones capable of withstanding the challenges of d…

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.

"In my opinion, planetary defense is an operational mission which should be formally tasked to U.S. Space Command."

15 million years ago, Earth experienced a shocking geological event that caused sea levels to plummet by up to 30 meters. This dramatic shift wasn’t caused by climate change, but by a massive collapse beneath the ocean’s surface.

A sugar made by deep-sea microbes causes cancer cells to self-destruct, and boosts the body’s defenses in the process.

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Astronomers discovered the Midpoint cloud, a Giant Molecular Cloud spanning 650 trillion miles within the Milky Way. 🔭 The discovery, using the Green Bank Telescope, offers insights into star formation and galactic processes. 🌠 The Midpoint…

While the study is intriguing, additional observations will be essential to verify or challenge its findings.

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A conjunction between a crescent moon and Mars joins an ongoing display of 'shooting stars,' making July 28 one of the best nights for skywatching all summer.

One of the biggest challenges in modern physics is uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity. A new experiment may finally provide some answers.

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

A neural network analyzes an extensive gut microbiome dataset to uncover insights into human health. Gut bacteria play an important role in a wide range of health conditions. Their sheer diversity and the complexity of their interactions with both the body’s …

Beneath the vast ice sheets of Antarctica lies a world of geological wonders that scientists have been studying for decades. Recent discoveries have revealed not ... Read more

Supermassive black holes represent one of the biggest head-scratchers in the Universe.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) detected three rocky planets around the M-dwarf L 98-59 in 2019. While two are expected to be hot, rocky worlds, the third could be covered by a global ocean. A fourth planet was discovered in 2021, and now,…

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In May, the US administration proposed budget cuts to NASA, including a more than 50% decrease in funding for the agency’s Earth Science Division

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already in place.

Thanks to auroras and other space weather, humans have adapted techniques to overcome these issues.

Senegal signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the latest nation to commit

Collapsing stars might act as cosmic laboratories for discovering hidden neutrino interactions. Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles in the universe. Nearly massless and incredibly elusive, they rarely interact with anything, yet they play a deadly…

While all the technology of the Apollo program still exists in the form of blueprints and designs, all the human expertise that went into crafting those rockets and spaceships is now either retired or passed away.

"Spain wants and can be the home of the future of astronomy and astrophysics."