If all goes well, the spacecraft will soon be headed even closer to the sun

In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around 1,500 years ago, raining fire over the area and destroying villages and farm fields, supposedly resulting in the rapid d…

When applied to seeds, ethylene resulted in taller, leafier crops without the usual trade off in stress tolerance.

Experts closing in on potentially identifying new force after surprise wobble of subatomic particle

The image was captured by the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera (LHVC) onboard the spacecraft. This camera, along with the Lander Imager (LI), was developed ...

Kids often wish for a snow day, but how about a total solar-eclipse day?

The ability of a gene to keep functioning despite mutations shows a surprising link to fundamental math.

The space agency lost touch with the beloved spacecraft following a faulty command signal. Here’s how it happened—and how engineers worked to bring it back.

Physicists studying an exotic metal have uncovered new evidence proving the existence of the so-called “demon” particle – a previously unknown quasiparticle speculated to play an important role in mediating superconductivity.

In March 1940, a solar storm struck the Earth that was so intense that it made metal wires crackle and disrupted phone lines and telegraph services for 5 hours. Know the impact of the Sunspot tornado.

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A new computer model simulating the evolution of planetary atmospheres found that water may have survived on some planets of the fascinating planetary system.

Think you know everything about a material? Try giving it a twist—literally. That's the main idea of an emerging field in condensed matter physics called "twistronics," which has researchers drastically changing the properties of 2D materials, like graphene, …

Earendel possesses a temperature approximately twice that of the sun and is likely accompanied by a stellar partner.

Scientific Reports - Detection of different variants of SARS-CoV-2 RNA (genome) on inanimate surfaces in high-touch public environmental surfaces

A big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows.Ocean sediment...

A retired chicken farmer found the rocks in the mid-1990s and donated it to the Australian Museum, where researchers have now named the newfound species Arenaerpeton supinatus.

Massive sea creature with 20 arms attached to a strawberry-shaped body found in Antarctic Ocean

Gas giant Beta Pictoris B was the first exoplanet to be directly imaged. Now we have footage stitched together of it (nearly) completing its 25 year orbit.

On August 12, 2023, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft passes between the sun and Earth, marking the first Earth flyby of the nearly 17-year-old mission. The visit home brings a special chance for the spacecraft to collaborate with NASA missions near Earth and reveal…

Some of these projects include a planned visit to the sun, putting humans in space and to start a space tourism industry by the year 2030.

The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light.

The emissions equate to approximately 1 trillion electron volts, making it the highest-energy radiation to ever be documented from our solar system’s star!

DNA technology confirmed Talpa hakkariensis and Talpa davidiana tatvanensis as distinct from other moles