Scientists used a new mathematical model, based on gravitional waves, to learn more about the origins of the universe.

This aerial photo taken on June 22, 2023 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China's Guizhou Province. China's FAST telescope identified a binary pulsar with an orbital period of 53.3 minut…

Andrew Leslie teaches earth and planetary sciences at Stanford University.

Andrew Leslie teaches earth and planetary sciences at Stanford University.

We learn about a study that showed how enormous prehistoric predators battled each other

A recent research study may have discovered a missing link that helps explain Earth's uniquely oxygen-saturated atmosphere and the corresponding evolution of animal life on our planet. The study, led by a Fellow of the Forrest Research Foundation at The Unive…

Researchers say they now believe they know more about why cosmic radiation hitting Earth can make our planet shake even more.

The disk of our Milky Way galaxy formed way early; earlier than most spiral galaxies of its size, but it’s not a complete outlier.

Researchers from the universities of Geneva, Paris, and Barcelona have uncovered strong evidence that the peculiarities seen in sizable star clusters can be explained by supermassive stars. Globular clusters are the universe's most massive and ancient star gr…

JWST Looks at the Next Planet in the TRAPPIST system. Could we detect colliding supermassive black holes. Hot Jupiters that flew too close to their stars. 🦄...

As discussed in last week’s blog, the Science Team has been attempting to obtain a sample of a conglomerate rock unit on top of the fan in Jezero crater.

Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of toothed whale, Olympicetus thalassodon, which lived 28 million years ago and offers insights into the evolution of modern dolphins. This species, along with two other similar odontocetes found in the same area,…

Scientists have developed a cutting-edge device capable of performing multiple medical tests at the same time

Earth is, in many ways, a water world. Around two-thirds of its surface is covered in water, and the oceans that provide that cover make up over 96% of all water on Earth, according to the US Geological Survey. Glaciers and ice caps make up another 1.74%, but…

Auroras appear to human eyes as ethereal curtains of visible light.But, as a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters explains, there are also scores of auroras visible only to electronic eyes.“They all have different reasons for occurring,” said…

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy hasn't always been quiet.

Solar storms millions of miles away are impacting Earth and all life on the planet will soon feel the effects.

Warmer temperatures are known to make more turtle eggs become female hatchlings, but new research out of Duke University shows that those females also have a higher capacity for egg production, even before their sex is set.

Dimorphos, the massive asteroid that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) deliberately crashed a spacecraft into in September 2022, is on...

Last year's colossal eruption of the Hunga undersea volcano near Tonga produced Earth's most intense recorded lightning storm, scientists said.

A recent study funded by NASA shows that frequent and longer duration space travel tends to affect the brain

Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even modern supermassive black holes formed. A new study suggests that the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could detect them when it comes o…

Lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:35 a.m. ET (15:35 UTC), a Falcon 9 successfully deployed 56 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. Originally scheduled to launch at 9:56 a.m., thunderstorms in…

Here, wolfie, wolfie, wolfie! Like dogs, wolves recognize and respond to the voices of familiar humans more than strangers, according to a study that has implications both for the story of canine domestication and our broader understanding of the natural worl…