The massive volcanic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which grows giant horns when it erupts, has exploded for a third time in five months as it continues to race toward the sun.

There Is a crack in Earth’s current ring, it’s how the light gets in.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be honored with the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement. For its work developing and

SpaceX is planning a Starlink delivery mission from Cape Canaveral Tuesday night, the first of two planned Falcon 9 launches in less than 48 hours. Liftoff from pad 40 is now scheduled for 11:31 p.m.

Look up early Thursday (Nov. 9) to witness one of the most beautiful celestial sights of 2023 — a 'smiling' crescent moon dancing with bright Venus in the predawn sky.

Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation'

Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation'

The Greenland ice sheet is the second-largest contributor to sea level rise, and as temperatures rise, glaciers in the northern parts of the region are becoming "extremely vulnerable."

New Study Proposes Dust as Key Factor in Dinosaur Extinction - OPP.Today

The study was published in the journal of the International Society of Microbial Ecology on October 31.

A new facial reconstruction depicts a Neanderthal whose skeleton was found by priests in a French cave.

"That's one less cosmic hazard we have to worry about!"

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) - The James Webb Telescope is a feat of modern technology. So we invited on Marica Rieke who operated the telescope. She will be givin...

If you've ever witnessed a shark breach the water—whether in person or somewhere on the Internet—that fleeting but awe-inspiring moment is just a small fraction of the time it spends at the surface of the ocean. Most of the time sharks and other large marine …

International Space Station crew members captured the Earth leaking a gory red substance

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this astonishing photo in February of a massive skull peering up from a volcanic pit on Earth. The skull is located 1,000 meters down in …

A small piece of asteroid Bennu will now rest in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought the sample to Earth recently.

Despite Elon Musk’s attempts to steal the spotlight, the AI community gave its undivided attention on Monday to OpenAI’s first-ever live event for developers and the press.The large-language model developer didn’t announce any mind-blowing research breakthrou…

In April 2021, four Michigan State University plant scientists met at an undisclosed area on campus to dig up a bottle containing seeds buried more than 144 years ago by MSU botanist William J. Beal.

During a summer visit to the Vatican City, I found myself admiring Michelangelo's most renowned masterpiece, "The Creation of Adam," adorning the ceiling at the Sistine Chapel. This famous fresco from 1508 portrays the biblical narrative of God endowing A

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NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s 29th commercial resupply services mission to the International

Watch our webinar from this year’s Peer Review Week, featuring valuable insights from some of our journal editors.Find out how to become a peer reviewer for ...

Microsoft is going all in on AI on multiple fronts from OpenAI to DALL-E, but now that it’s creeping into its video game division, some new alarm bells are going off in the industry.

An optical illusion during Saturn's equinox is to blame for the rings disappearing from view briefly. The next time this is set to happen is May 6, 2025.