Even the space junk designed with disposal in mind is a polluting presence around Earth, a new study has found. Those chunks of rocket and space station and dead satellites that burn up on atmospheric reentry leave miniscule traces of metal lingering...

Scientists think an asteroid could contain previously unknown elements. Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia appears to be denser than the densest element in the Periodic

Researchers believe that an asteroid in our galaxy is denser than the densest element in the Periodic Table.

Our galaxy is going to collide with its nearest major neighbor 4 billion years from now.

The space age has unintentionally marked its presence on one of the most untouched realms of the Earth – the stratosphere

The rapid changes in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica highlight the urgency of better direct observations and measurements, beyond satellite monitoring and modelling.

The damaged cranium of a Pierolapithecus has been put together virtually and compared with hominids past and present.

It holds that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity and complexity. "We see evolution as a universal process that applies to numerous systems, both living and nonliving, that increase in diversity and patterning through ti…

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.