A cutting-edge instrument called SHERLOC, which hunts for molecules potentially related to ancient life, played a key role in a recent study.

The bacterial cell wall must be constantly remodeled in order to grow and divide. This involves the close coordination of lytic enzymes and peptidoglycan synthesis.

The nation is aiming for a crewed lunar landing by 2030.

An international team of experts has made a technological breakthrough for one of the most important forms of imaging: optical coherence tomography (OCT). They believe that selective collection of multiple scattered light may lead to improved image c

Just 20% of the satellite is expected to survive reentry, with the other 80% burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

The event shows that we’re still a long way from having warning of every space rock that could threaten Earth.

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the study of superfluids. Their research supports the newly proposed S2W model of vortex motion in superfluid helium, opening up potential applications in other quantum-fluid systems. The Enigma of Superfluids Superf…

Scientists have concocted a puzzling new chemical compound that can not only stop the aging process, but more.

Astronomers say it's the first piece of evidence to suggest that a pair of planets can share the same orbit.

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 represented a major turning point for particle physics marking the completion of what is known as the standard model of particle physics. Yet, the standard model can't answer every question in physics, thus, since this…

NASA sent the Perseverance rover to Mars in 2020. The key objective of the mission includes collecting rock samples from the Red Planet that may contain signs of ancient microbial life. NASA and ESA will later send a spacecraft to Mars to collect these sample…

A research team led by Prof. Chen Xianhui from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), collaborating with the team led by Prof. Sun Jian from Nanjing University, realized a new high superconducting tr…

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths of space.

And a second Earth-sized untethered world has been identified.

'We use these airplanes because they're challenging.'

Even fewer respondents said Mars exploration should be a NASA priority.

The six-wheeled Perseverance explorer just packed its 20th sample from the Red Planet, which will hopefully be returned to Earth via a future mission.

As global warming pushes temperatures up, the elevation range where malaria-carrying mosquitoes thrive is rising. Researchers have found evidence of the phenomenon from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous, populous regions of eastern Af…

The history of Venus has been substantially affected by the higher-velocity distribution of early impacts compared with Earth. The heating induced in the core by the impacts triggered long-term volcanism that can explain its young surface age.

Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA’s ComPair (short for Compton Pair) balloon instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early in NASA’s 2023 fall balloon campaign.

The pair of newfound species, as well as two previously known species unearthed in the same place, rewrite what we knew about these prehistoric predators.

The newly discovered fossils, dating back to roughly 5 million years ago, could have implications for human bipedalism, researchers say.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. Wh...

Just 7 percent of US women want NASA to prioritize humans to Mars.