A new study led by the University of Oxford has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can also act as a large CO2 source, rivaling that of volcanoes. The results, published today in the journal Natur…

Winter is coming—eventually. And while the Earth is warming, a new study suggests that the atmosphere is being pushed around in ways that cause long bouts of extreme winter cold or wet in some regions.

Dissolving polymers with organic solvents is the essential process in the research and development of polymeric materials, including polymer synthesis, refining, painting, and coating. Now more than ever recycling plastic waste is a particularly imperative pa…

It appears that rogue planets – free floating worlds that aren’t gravitationally bound to a parent star – might be more common than we thought. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed 540 (yes, that’s right) planetary-mass objects in the Or…

Two conflicting methods to measure the expansion rate of the universe give different results, but researchers could resolve the disparity by watching merging neutron stars explode.

Researchers engineered an electronic "tongue" that potentially lays a framework for developing artificial intelligence (AI) with emotional intelligence, particularly related to taste and eating habits.

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws succeeded in creating one of the most enduring movie monsters of all time. Nearly 50 years after its release, Jaws still holds an...

SRI partners with Scout Space and Leidos for debris-tracking project

New research reveals the Cosmic Web, a vast network of hydrogen filaments that strings the galaxies together.

The Perseverance Rover tracks made their debut at Mission: SPACE in EPCOT today, and we took a quick trip to the park to check them out.

The newly-discovered water reservoir lies 3.2 km (2 miles) under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake fault that faces the country’s North Island.

A species of spider lives its entire life underwater, despite having lungs that can only breathe atmospheric oxygen. How does it do it? This spider, known as the Argyroneta aquatica, has millions of rough, water-repellent hairs that trap air around its body, …

UK startup ODIN Space hopes its in-orbit impact detectors can help track some of the smallest, yet most dangerous, space debris that endangers satellites and...

Deep within the inner core of our planet, scientists have made a surprising discovery: something appears to be moving.

US News: Scientists have discovered an unexpected surplus of dark material on the interior surfaces of a sample container from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. T

Hot jupiters are giant planets that orbit extremely close to their stars, completing an orbit in a few days or hours. We have nothing like them in the Solar System, but astronomers think they're present in roughly 1% of star systems. But all stars? According …

Today, Jordan Rift Valley east of the Mediterranean is challengingly parched, bare and uneven in its terrain.

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International scientists, including astronomers using data from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha |  University of Canterbury (UC) Mt John Observatory and the International Astronomical Union’s Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satell

An onboard control unit failed to turn Luna-25's thrusters off at the proper time.

A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's visible and infrared capabilities captured this edge-on view of lenticular galaxy NGC 612. Lenticular galaxies have a central bulge and disk much like spiral g…

Research shows that 20th-century commercial whaling has left a mark on the genetic diversity of surviving whales, emphasizing the importance of understanding and conserving their genetic history. Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of…

The laws of physics being what they are (and ruling out the Bussard ramjets so popular in late 20th century SF), getting from one solar system to another is likely to consume entire human lifetimes…