WASHINGTON - The Euclid space telescope, launched July 1 on a mission to shed more light on elusive dark matter and dark energy, has reached its destination orbit and on Monday its European operators revealed its first test images.

Giant viruses are much more diverse in shape and size than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

New research has found that microwaving plastic food containers spews out toxic microplastics — and it's freaked out the guy studying it.

Content creators are invited to register for a chance to take part in our NASA Social event for the OSIRIS-REx sample reveal–the first pristine asteroid sample

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that a nearby exoplanet is losing its atmosphere due to interactions with its star.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that a nearby exoplanet is losing its atmosphere due to interactions with its star.

Brian May shared his thoughts on climate change, space travel and humans' treatment of Earth in a July 2023 interview.

The rich are doing doctor-assisted ketamine, once known in the clubs as Special K, which can be used for mental health purposes.

Scientists thawed out a 46,000-year-old worm dating back to the Ice Age and brought it back to life, and then it started having babies.How a 46,000-year-old worm came back to life and started having babies

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The European Space Agency spacecraft entered the atmosphere and burned up on Friday (July 28).

The first rocket launch from the surface of another planet will be accomplished using two solid rocket motors.

Once sinking slabs from a prehistoric ocean moved years ago and reached the Earth’s mantle, plumes formed, creating the low spot, researchers say.

Humanity has been on an asteroid-finding spree as of late. Those close to Earth, known as Near Earth Objects (NEOs), have been particularly interesting for two reasons. One is they offer potentially lucrative economic opportunities with asteroid mining. The o…

Declawing house cats to keep them from scratching people and furniture is controversial—and even banned in some countries and areas in the U.S.—but the practice is not limited to house cats. In a new study, researchers looked at the effects of declawing on la…

The reentry assist, a world first, meant teams were tasked with guiding Aeolus through part of its descent, from an altitude of 320 kilometers to 120 kilometers, before burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

Webb is casting the universe in a new light, but the space telescope's discovery of a cosmological question mark has us scratching our heads.

Tokyo Met University researchers reveal foam spreading physics: Scraping speed dictates distinct patterns, influenced by competing physical forces.

New research led by Universidade de São Paulo and Washington State University scientists demonstrates that bees originated in western Gondwana (Africa and South America) in the Early Cretaceous epoch.

Earth is rapidly warming and scientists are developing a variety of approaches to reduce the effects of climate change. István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, has proposed a novel approach—a solar shield to reduce …

Europe’s first Euclid test images, taken from space, confirm that the telescope’s instruments work as the agency continues to test and verify that it functions as intended.

A research team led by Prof. Yossi Paltiel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with groups from HUJI, Weizmann and IST Austria has published a new study that reveals the influence of nuclear spin on biological processes. This discovery challenges long-held …

Could pathogens that were once common on Earth – but frozen for millennia in glaciers, ice caps and permafrost – emerge from the melting ice to lay waste to modern ecosystems? The potential is, in fact, quite real.