NASA and SpaceX are expected to launch a spacecraft to investigate the metal-rich asteroid "Psyche" on Oct. 12, officials announced Thursday.

The newly-discovered fossilized specimen of Bohemolichas incola provides by far the most detailed source of information to date concerning the diet and the feeding mode of trilobites.

In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the universe expands, and although we know approximately how fast, the two primary ways to measure this expansion do not agree. Now astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Instit…

Too long has the mirror ball been overlooked as a scientific instrument.

Good news: More science. Bad news: Somebody has to pay for it

Last week may have been the first time that many saw photos of the oddly shaped celestial body when NASA shared photos taken in 2017 on Instagram.

Three fuel-free spacecraft will use algorithms and fringes of atmosphere to guide flight.

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently identified a previously unknown compartment in mammalian cells. They have named it the exclusome. It is made up of DNA rings known as plasmids. The researchers have published details of their discovery in the journal Molecul…

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), or the "China Sky Eye," Chinese scientists have discovered 76 new faint and occasionally emitting pulsars, including a group of the faintest pulsars known today.

Magnetotactic bacteria can form magnetofossils like magnetic nanocrystals as observed in the Martian meteorite ALH84001, which held a special place in the field of astrobiology primarily in the early 90s. While the flourishing of interest in magnetotactic bac…

The large-scale structure of the universe—the gigantic, hierarchical cosmic web of structures bound by gravity—is mostly made up of dark matter. The growth of the large-scale structure, from individual galaxies to galaxy clusters, cosmic voids and filaments (…

Source Image Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Massey; Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of A

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654.

Asteroid 349507 (2008 QY) is around 1.2 kilometers in diameter, or around 100 capybaras – large enough that an impact event (which won't happen now) could be a worldwide catastrophe.

Barnard’s Galaxy is roughly 1.5 million light-years away

Scientists using space-based radar found that land in New York City is sinking at varying rates due to human and natural factors. A few spots are rising. Parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking and rising at different rates due to factors ran…

Diamonds are often prized for their flawless shine, but Chong Zu, an assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sees a deeper value in these natural crystals. As reported in Physical Review Letters, Zu and his tea…

Facts for Prelims (FFP)   Source: Space com  Context: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu and is now on an extended mission to study Apophis. The mission was significant for understanding the early solar system, poten…

Using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, an animation has been created that "reveals a 3-D slice through a network of hydrogen gas filaments that crisscro...

NASA explained in a blog that these microgravity cups were created to aid astronauts in savouring their coffee in space.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted two astronomical objects merging into one approximately 465 million light-years from Earth.

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