Scientists estimate just two dozen pleasant people could be the minimum number of astronauts it could take to build an otherworldly residence.

An expert explains why so many people do "cricket feet" — aka rub their feet together like the insect — at night before they fall asleep.

Here are some of the stories in space that you may have missed for the third week of August 2023.

While we've studied black holes quite extensively and there's a lot of theoretical science backing up what we do know, there are still lots of mysteries.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured photos of a big sunspot, which should rotate into view for those of us on Earth in the coming days.

Scientists estimate 1% of viruses in permafrost could pose a threat to global ecosystems.

In the middle of the last century, physicists found that protons can resonate, much like a ringing bell. Advances over the last three decades have led to 3D pictures of the proton and significant insight into its structure in its ground state. But little is k…

New Stanford University research has revealed that the mineral silica, a common food additive and popular cosmetics ingredient, is not a chemically inert substance, as has long been supposed.

The northern Pacific near Japan and Russia is home for several different groups of orcas. They have no contact with each other, do not seek the same food, do not speak the same dialect, and do not mate with each other. How can this be when they live so close …

Saurosuchus galilei is a large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaur that lived in South America 230 million years ago (Late Triassic epoch).

Researchers studying GRB 221009A, the Brightest of All Time (BOAT) gamma-ray burst, found its jet exhibited an unusual structure, which may explain its extreme nature and prolonged visible afterglow. These findings could challenge standard theories about gamm…

Following several launch delays last week, the week of Aug. 21 through Aug. 27 is…

The rocky planets all have similar origins, but only one supports life.The four planets closest to the sun, called the rocky planets, were born from the sam...

"There are no major technological hurdles to overcome to realize this detector."

Maglevs are one of those technologies that still look like magic, even years after they were initially rolled out. While they have long been a workhorse of the transportation systems of some major cities, they don't often impact the day-to-day lives of people…

The Gediz Vallis Ridge has been a long-term, and, at times, seemingly impossible goal of the Curiosity Rover mission.

The find could prove that volcanic activity on the moon didn't end 1 billion years ago, but may still be active today.

For the first time in 30 years, Neptune has lost all its clouds, according to people who make it their business to keep an eye on things happening on the eighth planet from the sun. According to NA…

Winners of a nature photo contest have been announced and the winner for the 'Plants and fungi' category is an zombie fungus that ate through the inside of an ant and sprouted from its head.

In 1929 Edwin Hubble published the first solid evidence that the universe is expanding. Drawing upon data from Vesto Slipher and Henrietta Leavitt, Hubble demonstrated a correlation between galactic distance and redshift. The more distant a galaxy was, the mo…

The mysteries of Earth’s core – the deeper scientists look into the heart of our planet, the more puzzling it becomes.

A massive galaxy cluster 2.6 billion light-years away is spotlit in a new image.

This week, a star will simply disappear, and we’ll be able to watch it happen right here in Ohio.

Clues about the formation of major ice sheets on Antarctica have been found in mud cores drilled in Mississippi, providing an important lesson about a major climate cooling event, sometimes known as the Grande Coupure or great cut.

See what Boston and Cape Cod look like from the International Space Station.