A new study considers how future astrobiology studies could search for life "as we don't know it" on exoplanets.

"Convection within stars is similar to the process that fuels thunderstorms."

Human Brain Project (HBP) researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University of Cologne (Germany) have uncovered how neuron densities are distributed across and within cortical areas in the mammalian brain. They have unveiled a fundamental organizat…

When supermassive black holes barrel toward collision, they can reach speeds of up to 1/10th the speed of light, new research suggests.

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its conte...

A team led by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin has unveiled the first-ever Jurassic vertebrate fossils discovered in Texas, filling a significant gap in the state's fossil history. These ancient bone remnants, found to be from the extremities…

About 13,000 years ago, over the course of a couple hundred years, “massive animals that roamed Southern California” disappeared, experts say.

“With the power to create and control fire, humans lit up the land,” a museum says.

One of the most common and practically useful experiments in all of fluid dynamics involves holding an object in air or submerging it fully underwater, exposing it to a steady flow to measure its resistance in the form of drag. Studies on drag resistance have…

Washington, Aug 22: The SpaceX Dragon launch of Crew 7 to the International Space Station (ISS) is on schedule for Friday, NASA and SpaceX officials told reporters after a seven hour pre-launch conference. “It was a good review,” NASA Space Operations Mission…

It's not as big as the Scary Barbie star, but it's pretty enormous.

An MIT machine-learning system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems.

NASA Invites Digital Content Creators to Cover Psyche Launch

Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023.

When archaeologists recently carried out an excavation at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County, they made a surprising discovery that they had only dreamed of finding.

European Space Agency officials call it a "ghostly assemblage of stars."

Interactions between MACHO 80.7443.1718 and its companion create two million mile-high waves of plasma from the giant star.

In a recently published article featured on the cover of the Biophysical Journal, Dr. Rafael Bernardi, assistant professor of biophysics at the Department of Physics at Auburn University, and Dr. Marcelo Melo, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Bernardi's group…

An ambitious five-year research project has assembled a multidisciplinary team of scientists.

As humans, we are pretty good at working out how busy the cafeteria at work will be, and going elsewhere if we think it will be full. Now, researchers at the University of Regensburg have discovered that ants also understand that some feeding places can get f…

Rest of World News: Russia's failed attempt to land a probe on the moon highlights the challenges faced by its space program. The crash of the Luna-25 probe reflects prob

The American lion (Panthera atrox) may have roared, while the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis may have produced vocalizations similar to living purring cats but at a lower frequency.

Let's take a look at the 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon:

A team led by Prof. He Junfeng from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with domestic and international collaborators, discovered that the energy level of the van Hove singularity (VHS) in th…

Two Japanese astronomers sent drawings meant to represent life on Earth to a distant star