University of Oregon researchers are adding new details to the geological history of the iconic Columbia River Gorge, a wide river canyon that cuts through the volcanic peaks of the Cascades along the border between Oregon and Washington.

Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.

James Webb Telescope surprises with newborn galaxies' banana-like shapes, challenging established astrophysical beliefs. A groundbreaking discovery in cosmic structures.

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that travel at the speed of light. These are produced in some of the most violent events in the universe, such as black-hole mergers, supernovae, or the Big Bang itself. Since their first detection in…

Are we entering a new space race? Later this month, Japan aims to land a probe on the moon’s south pole. If it’s successful, it would be the fifth nation eve...

A three-ringed structure in the planet-forming zone of a circumstellar disk where metals and minerals serve as a reservoir of planetary building blocks.

Nic Stoffle, science and operations lead for the Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer (LETS), provides an overview of the instrument. LETS launched aboard Ast...

The fish with the gift of gab: What these chatty little sailors can teach us about human brains

Using a spectral synthesis code designed to simulate conditions in interstellar matter, astronomers have explored a faint tidal disruption event (TDE) designated iPTF16fnl. Results of the study, published Dec. 29 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver importa…

NASA has reallocated a serious pot of funding for the companies still participating in its Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) program.

In a shocking event off the coast of Florida (a state of the United States), a silky shark reappeared with a completely healed fin, a year after it was photographed with a massive tear in its dorsal fin. This is the second documented case of dorsal fin regen…

A strange polygon structure has been discovered below the surface of Mars, giving experts new insights into the planet’s make-up.Advancements in technology have allowed scientists to uncover amazing revelations about our universe, like the giant water reservo…

The stars in this cluster are estimated to be about 4 to 12 million years old.

Neanderthals may have died out a long time ago, but that doesn't mean that their genetics aren't still around in us

A broad-ranging analysis asks whether we can achieve a kind of immortality by documenting our lives and deaths online.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration has allayed the concerns raised by some reports that 2007 FT3, a lost asteroid, could potentially crash into Earth in October this year.

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A first glimpse of the unparalleled data that will be gathered when science operations of the Japan-led XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory start later this year has been made public.

In 2023, world witnesses several major space missions, including return of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, exploration of moon's south pole - Anadolu Ajansı

Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the presence, of a chemical feature in their atmospheres

The galaxy, dubbed MCG-01-24-014, is situated approximately 275 million light-years away from Earth.

When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely to be the driving force

"This will be achieved autonomously, without relying on guidance from the ground."

Physicists have deciphered the underlying physics of a perplexing "magnet levitation" phenomenon first reported by a Turkish researcher in 2021.