In the natural world, it's not uncommon to see flowers from unrelated species exhibit similar physical characteristics. One such attribute is bilateral symmetry, a feature seen in many different types of flowers, including those from the orchid and legume fam…

VIPER is NASA’s first rover to need headlights.

During the final year of NASA's Mars InSight mission, a large marsquake allowed researchers from ETH Zurich to determine the global thickness and density of the Mars' crust. The Martian crust turned out to be significantly thicker compared to those of Earth o…

The research suggests that certain corals can, in fact, weather the storm of climate change without significant metabolic cost.

Researchers analyzed more than 500,000 motion-sensor camera trap images taken at a Northern California reserve in the years before and after the Mendocino Complex Fire to understand how the blaze impacted small- and medium-sized mammals. The study is one of t…

Tiny bacterial spores may hold the key to finding life on the far-flung icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, says recent research.

The newly-identified species is closely related to the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis), the only living representative of Alligatoridae (the crown-group of caimans and alligators) outside the Americas.

Waves produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities transfer energy in the solar system. A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has found that NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encount…

Genetic analysis has revealed that horsehair worms, of the phylum Nematomorpha, took an evolutionary detour that cost them about 30% of genes found in other animals.

The blackouts could come days after a series of plasma clouds burst from the sun, which triggered a minor solar radiation storm.

Alex Dainis explained that the study considered the differences between “strong attractors” — people who tend to get bitten more — and “weak attractors.”

'We really need to be on the lunar surface,' said NASA's David Urban.

Data from BepiColombo's first flyby of Mercury is showing how high-energy auroras glow within the planet's thin atmosphere.

Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret of their ability to kill microbes on contact. If this function of nature can be replicated by sci…

The jug-like structure is a rare and short-lived double-lobed planetary nebula.

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will carry several experiments to the International Space Station. The CRS-19 mission is scheduled to launch in August 2...

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by the company OpenAI, has a self-declared human alter ego. Her name is Maya, she's 35 years old and hails from a middle-class family in a suburban town in the United States. Maya is a successful sof…

New findings suggests that Parkinson's disease may silently progress for over a decade before symptoms appear.

Dark matter is composed of particles that do not absorb, reflect, or emit light, so dark matter is material that cannot be observed directly. We know that da...

An international team of astrophysicists, using new data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), published findings about the blazar called Markarian 421 – which offered some surprising results.

Oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The results of a new study defy a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago.

BESSY II's high-brilliance X-rays can be used to produce microscopic images with spatial resolution down to a few tens of nanometers.

Asteroid 2023 NE1, said by NASA to pass the Earth on Wednesday, July 19, is as much as 100 meters in diameter. Or in other words, around 45 aardvarks.