The James Webb Space Telescope will zero in on a portion of the famous Orion Nebula, the closest region of mass star-formation to Earth, to learn more about how massive young stars shape their enviro… [+5851 chars]
The Earth exists in a dangerous environment. Cosmic bodies, like asteroids and comets, are constantly zooming through space and often crash into our planet. Most of these are too small to pose a thre… [+7739 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and one in Austria has confirmed that a circular mountain ridge in China's Heilongjiang Province is a crater made by an asteroid st… [+2802 chars]
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), which is touted as the world's most powerful solar telescope, has officially begun its first science observations. According to the National Science Foun… [+1917 chars]
When two neutron stars spiral into one another and merge to form a black hole -- an event recorded in 2017 by gravitational wave detectors and telescopes worldwide -- does it immediately become a bla… [+6981 chars]
The aurora australis streams above the Indian Ocean in this picture from the space station as it orbited 270 miles above the Earth. Credit: NASA The Expedition 66 crew kicked off the week working on… [+2151 chars]
The search for alien life has been restricted to using life on Earth as the reference, essentially looking for "life as we know it" beyond Earth. For astrobiologists looking for life on other planets… [+4649 chars]
The fossil of a 510-million-year-old relative of modern starfish and sea urchins has revealed new insights into the early evolution of a hard skeleton, scientists have said. Researchers from Spain, … [+4008 chars]
A new study suggests that losing sleep to keep up with the demands of the day is not unique to humans. An international team of scientists has examined sleep behavior among baboons at the Mpala Resea… [+3057 chars]
Genes jumping from microbes to green algae hundreds of millions of years ago might have driven the evolution of land plants, researchers report March 1 in the journal Molecular Plant. Their analysis … [+3796 chars]
Gazing at the night sky can evoke a sense of wonder regarding humanity's place in the Universe. But that's not all it can evoke. If you're knowledgeable about asteroid strikes like the one that wipe… [+7079 chars]
Water molecule in liquid phase accelerating dynamics by X-ray radiation Credit: Osamu Takahashi, Hiroshima University Water is an abundant and essential compound, found everywhere on earth. Yet desp… [+4388 chars]
