When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" - proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction - it provoked a…

'I'm very happy to be a part of this mission and this great crew.'

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings.

A new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn College, and the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million yea…

The Space Age is leaving fingerprints on one of the most remote parts of the planet—the stratosphere—which has potential implications for climate, the ozone layer and the continued habitability of Earth.

Because of our dependence on technology, a powerful solar storm would be a catastrophe, shutting down the electrical grid and deactivating satellites. Researchers studying tree rings have found what they think is the most powerful solar storm ever to hit our …

Scientists find mysterious ‘singing’ plasma waves around Mercury

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an amazing image of a spiral galaxy, called IC 5332, roughly 30 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor

New wet-lab methods can be hard to share owing to their complexity, but with a little extra effort, you can give users a leg-up in getting started.

Watermeal exists in clumps no larger than a pinhead but could be an essential foodstuff and source of oxygen for humans in space.

Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change.

The telescope captured two neighbouring clouds of cosmic dust and gas, the giant red nebula NGC 2014 and a smaller blue nebula nearby called NGC 2020.

A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to climate change is hard to tell.

Scientific Reports - Enhancing CO2 adsorption capacity of ZIF-8 by synergetic effect of high pressure and temperature

The discovery could lead to a method of countering the negative effects of global warming in the oceans.

A timelapse of the 2023 annular solar eclipse as seen from outside Great Basin National Park in Ely. Nevada on Oct. 14, 2023. Shot with a Unistellar eQuinox ...

"Chandrayaan-3 mission's Vikram lander is happily sleeping on the Moon after doing its job very well," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief S Somanath said on Monday.

The Kuiper Belt, the vast region at the edge of our solar system populated by countless icy objects, is a treasure trove of scientific discoveries. The detection and characterization of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), sometimes referred to as Trans-Neptunian Obje…

/PRNewswire/ -- In a study examining the dynamics of neutral hydrogen gas within the North Celestial Pole (NCP) Loop, scientists have uncovered an unforeseen...

The mystery behind the peculiar metal-insulator transition exhibited by certain materials under external stimuli such as temperature, pressure, electric fields has been decoded by scientists, paving the way towards designing functional materials and

Which things can go faster than light and what does it mean for Physics. Can quantum entanglement provide interstellar communication. Why NASA didn't believe...

Eclipse-chasers and archaeo-astronomers flocked to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to see annularity from the home of the famous 'Rock of the Sun' petroglyph.

With its low quantities of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of the most extreme and least habitable environments on Earth. While the Sahara was periodically much greener in the distant past, an ancient society liv…

One of the most exciting findings from NASA's Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, hosts complex organics. The discovery of aliphatic molecules, which consist of carbon and hydrogen chains, in…

"Tiles could be created on the moon in a relatively short time with simple equipment."