There are two major hypotheses: one looks at the ecological factors and the other involves the specific functional benefits of sleep.

In a big surprise, in the early hours of July 26, a solar storm struck the Earth ahead of schedule. This was ahead of the predicted CME strike tomorrow. Researchers are trying to figure out if this was an entirely overlooked CME.

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, which could be key to understanding the formation of the solar system and our own planet, is set to be analyzed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston after it reaches Earth in late September.

An Aten-group asteroid could make its closest approach to Earth soon and it will pass the planet by an extremely close margin, NASA has revealed.

A preliminary report by the Environmental Protection Agency found a

Falcon 9, a reusable two-stage rocket designed for safe and reliable transportation of payloads and people into Earth’s orbit and beyond, was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in...

NASA may find over 400 rogue planets roaming around the Milky Way Galaxy in future missions. These starless rogues might outnumber their orbiting counterparts in our galaxy.

Keeping a watchful eye on newly settled corals at submillimeter scale on the Great Barrier Reef is now much easier, with Southern Cross University and CSIRO successfully using underwater macrophotogrammetry for the first time.

Due to COVID, automation and generative AI are likely to eliminate jobs sooner than expected. Another 12M workers are likely to switch fields by 2030.

The James Webb Space Telescope is an international collaboration led by NASA, in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency.

An Indian Reddit user claims he found at least 10 cockroaches in a sealed bottle of honey.

Precious cargo is currently aboard OSIRIS-REx, a US space probe launched in 2016 to Bennu

A vital system of ocean currents in the Atlantic could collapse within a few decades – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.”

Transitions from surfaces, such as moving from gravel or dirt to grass, proved to be the riskiest. Those riders were almost 60 times more likely to have a crash or near-crash experience. This was supported by data showing that riding off a designated path, or…

NASA has had a profound influence in the sciences. For one, the ability to guide unmanned robotic spacecraft anywhere in the solar system was a byproduct of the technologies necessary for the manned Apollo missions.

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America.

Astronomers using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera have captured a stunning photo of the massive barred spiral galaxy NGC 1532 and its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531.

Perseid Meteor Shower can be seen in the night sky now, but will become most prevalent August 12 and 13 in the early morning hours

There should be no effect on the next Crew Dragon astronaut launch to the space station.

Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and over 20,000 meters high. Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars.

If you take an object and set it out in the sun, it will begin to warm up. This is because it is absorbing energy from the sun's rays and converting that energy to heat. If you leave that object outside, it will continue getting warmer, but only to a point. A…

Kamilla Cziráki, a geophysics student at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), has taken a new approach to researching the navigation systems that can be used on the surface of the moon to plan future journeys.

The color change over the last two decades means ecological systems within the ocean must also be changing, since the ocean's color reflects the organisms living within it

Caltech researchers have found a way to violate a 150-year-old tenet of physics, a breakthrough that may allow for more efficient solar panels.

Precise control of light is a crucial requirement in optical imaging, sensing, and communication. Traditional lenses employed for the purpose have limitations, necessitating more precise and compact solutions. To address this need, researchers have developed …