Study involving 14 astronauts who spent 4-1/2 to 6-1/2 months aboard International Space Station

Researchers found a new species of early odontocete, or toothed whale, that swam along the North Pacific coastline around 28 million years ago. The study was published in the journal, 'PeerJ.'"Olympicetus thalassodon and its close relatives show a combination…

Horses' ancient ancestors once trotted across the landscape on a small number of hooved toes, evolving over the ages to a single solid hoof we see today.

On March 1, 2023, NASA's Juno mission completed its 49th close flyby of Jupiter. As the spacecraft flew low over the giant planet's cloud tops, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at bands of high-altitude haze forming above cyclones in an area

The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than 8,000 light-years away from Earth and is, like all globular clusters, a densely populated reg…

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Researchers found a new species of early odontocete, or toothed whale, that swam along the North Pacific coastline around 28 million years ago.

A team led by astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin has captured images of the lowest-mass extrasolar planet ever discovered that has both a direct mass measurement and an orbit similar to the giant planets in our own solar system. It’s al

Thor, the legendary Norse god from the mythological city of Asgard, is not alone. According to groundbreaking research published in the journal Nature, we humans — along with eagles, starfish, daisies and every complex organism on Earth — are, in a s

Proteins are the central building material of our bodies. As a fundamental component of the cell as well as of DNA and its genes, they make us who we are. Scientists who study the complex interactions of proteins often use high-performance computing

Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth's surface temperature is likely underestimated by a factor of two, and potentially as much as a factor of four, in standard climate projections.

Researchers say that monarchs with more white spots on their wings migrate more successfully.

Commercial space travel shares plenty of similarities with deep sea tourism.

Study indicates that emissions of CO2 by soil microbes into the Earth's atmosphere are not only expected to increase but also accelerate on a global scale by the end of this century.

"It is better to not do it than to torch the whole science community."

NASA has a suite of space telescopes to study the cosmos. One spacecraft called Chandra studies high-octane events, like supernovas, visible in X-ray light.

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have discovered one of the lowest-mass planets whose images have been directly captured. Not only were they able to measure its mass, but they were also able to determine that its orbit is s…

Nearest supermassive black hole awakens from dormancy, becomes a million times brighter: Scientists

A trio of astronomers from Armagh Observatory & Planetarium and Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA has found that a white dwarf that was recently projected to make its way toward our solar system will not do so.

A restrictive ‘boundary system’ could unfortunately make the Apple Vision Pro sub-optimal for gaming.

Olympicetus thalassodon is one of several that are helping us understand the early history and diversification of modern dolphins, porpoises and other toothed whales.

"This is really exciting because we are looking for the first time at the molecular blueprints of the ancestor that gave rise to the first eukaryotic cells."

Water and carbon make a quantum couple: the flow of water on a carbon surface is governed by an unusual phenomenon dubbed quantum friction. A new work published in Nature Nanotechnology experimentally demonstrates this phenomenon—which was predicted in a prev…

A team led by a physicist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a new quantum theory that explains the "light-induced phase" of matter and predicts its novel functionalities. The new theory has the potential to revolutionize the field o…