The kilonova explosion that resulted when two neutron stars slammed into each other a billion light-years away turned out to be factory for rare heavy elements.

The Atlas was built from data gathered in preparation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) experiment.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Egbert Edelbroek was acting as a sperm donor when he first wondered whether it's possible to have babies in space. Curious about the various ways that donated sperm can be used, Edelbroek, a Dutc…

NASA has revealed details of an upcoming close encounter with an asteroid that will pass the planet closely today, October 26 Know its speed, size, distance of approach, and other details.

Physics meets philosophy — and Dante — in possibly the most charming book by a mainstream scientist this year

Erratic hints of an atmosphere around one of the hottest planets known have puzzled astronomers; very brief puffs of gas release may be the answer.

A team of researchers led by Academician DU Jiangfeng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has made a significant breakthrough in exploring exotic spin interactions. They successfully

Mars may have a hard, dusty shell, but its interior is layered like a jawbreaker – and surprisingly squishy.

Grass may transfer genes from their neighbours in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed. Research, led by the University of Sheffield, is the first to show the frequency at which grasses incorporate DNA from other

Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries, having captured unprecedented data from the Sun’s magnetic field.The groundbreaking data collected from the US National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K Ino

An international team of scientists has found early human migrants left Africa for Eurasia, across the Sinai peninsula and on through Jordan, over 80-thousand years ago.Researchers from the University of Southampton (UK) and Shantou University (China

Researchers from the University of Southampton, together with colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Barcelona, have shown it’s theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectly balanced pairs – held in equilibrium by a cosmolog

Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub were ordered to evacuate the area after tether became contaminated.

<p>Stanford researchers who previously pioneered a new kind of protein degradation have mapped out how the process works, which could lead to new drug therapies for diseases like Alzheimer&rsquo;s and cancer, and for rare childhood enzyme disorders.</p>

<p>Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry Jacob Daane is heading a $1.9M project that could lead to a better understanding of trait evolution and human diseases. Daane&rsquo;s laboratory seeks to know how the fish&rsquo;s extreme traits evolved and h…

NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an image that showed stormy clouds and shadows near Jupiter's day-night line.

Abstract. The origin of obscuration in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is still an open debate. In particular, it is unclear what drives the relative contributions

Abstract. Accurate measurement of the Hubble constant from standard sirens such as the gravitational wave (GW) sources with electromagnetic counterparts relies

We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees.

Scientists have uncovered a method to make ceramics tougher and more resistant to cracking. By building these materials with a mix of metal atoms that have a higher number of electrons in their external shell, a group spearheaded by engineers from the Univers…

Researchers recently found an undiscovered landscape beneath Antarctica's ice.The continent once looked very different and was much warmer. Millions of years

I was today years old when I learned that loneliness can have the same risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Researchers from Kyoto University reveal how sperm's unique motion in thick fluids defy Newton's third law of motion and how it can be leveraged in robotics to our benefit.

On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky.

A recent study found that part of Antarctica is expected to disappear in an “unavoidable” melt. The full melt will take hundreds of years and it will slowly at nearly 1.8 meters to sea levels.