OSIRIS-APEX performed a precision gravity-assist past Earth on Sept. 23 to set up observations of asteroid Apophis. The spacecraft began as OSIRIS-REx, collected a Bennu sample in 2020 and returned it in 2023. ...
A fossil study of 183 vertebrae from at least 32 snakes shows anacondas reached their present large size about...
The study in Nature Astronomy models how water and ice interact beneath the crusts of small outer-planet moons...
Key points: At the ESA Ministerial Council in Bremen, Director General Josef Aschbacher announced that a Germa...
The Sun unleashed an X1.9-class flare on Nov. 30 (peaking at 9:49 a.m. EST), causing a brief R3 radio blackout...
The Sun produced powerful CMEs and flares on Nov. 11–12, pushing the Kp index to 8.67 — the second-strongest s...
An interdisciplinary team spent about 40 hours at sea with Marshallese navigators to study wave‑piloting — an ...
Isotopic analyses of Apollo lunar samples, Earth rocks and Antarctic meteorites indicate the Moon‑forming impa...
Researchers analyzing audio from the Perseverance rover have confirmed the first electrical discharges inside Martian dust storms. Published in Nature , the study shows triboelectric charging among dust grains ...
TESS detected starquakes in a rapidly rotating red giant in Gaia BH2 (~3,800 light-years away), revealing an "...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object, is expected to pass about 170 million miles from Earth on December 19. An Oc...
Trained macaque monkeys were able to synchronize hand taps to the beats of recorded songs, including a pop tra...
The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam has produced the most detailed images yet of the Red Spider Nebula, re...
A gray whale carcass found in 2009 on the Clayoquot Slope continues to support a diverse deep-sea community ne...
A three-orca pod off Madeira attacked and killed a pygmy sperm whale, producing an 80-foot red-brown slick. Ca...
ESA and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) are recruiting six volunteers for a 100-day isolation study in Colog...
The study analyzes 2,456 mitochondrial genomes alongside Y‑chromosome data, archaeology, climate models and revised mutation rates to support a 60,000–65,000-year arrival in Sahul. It finds at least two distinc...
Italian photographer Valter Binotto filmed a rare ELVES event on Nov. 17 — a millisecond‑long, red ring of lig...
Whole-genome analysis of 70 ancient cats indicates that most modern domestic cats became established in Europe...
Researchers Joseph Aziz and Richard Howl (University of London) publish a Nature paper showing that a classica...
Geologists have completed the offshore geological mapping of Zealandia, documenting nearly two million square ...
Hollywood’s image of a frilled, venom-spitting Dilophosaurus is fictional: later fossils showed the jaw anatom...
Florida's Space Coast reached 101 orbital launches through November, breaking the previous record of 93. Decem...
Short summary: Evolution has not stopped—its pressures and pathways have shifted. Advances like medicine and s...
2 August 2027: A total solar eclipse will cross North Africa, with the greatest point of totality near Luxor, Egypt. The eclipse is expected to produce roughly 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality at its maximum — ...
The article examines eight ancient cultures—the Egyptians, Maya, Babylonians, Chinese, Greeks, Inca, Aborigina...
Statistical significance — popularized by Ronald Fisher — became a dominant but overly simplistic way to judge...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched at 2:44 a.m. on Dec. 1 for the Starlink 6‑86 mission, the 102nd orbital liftoff fro...
OSIRIS-APEX performed a precision gravity-assist past Earth on Sept. 23 to set up observations of asteroid Apophis. The spacecraft began as OSIRIS-REx, collected a Bennu sample in 2020 and returned it in 2023. ...
A fossil study of 183 vertebrae from at least 32 snakes shows anacondas reached their present large size about...
The study in Nature Astronomy models how water and ice interact beneath the crusts of small outer-planet moons...
Key points: At the ESA Ministerial Council in Bremen, Director General Josef Aschbacher announced that a Germa...
The Sun unleashed an X1.9-class flare on Nov. 30 (peaking at 9:49 a.m. EST), causing a brief R3 radio blackout...
The Sun produced powerful CMEs and flares on Nov. 11–12, pushing the Kp index to 8.67 — the second-strongest s...
An interdisciplinary team spent about 40 hours at sea with Marshallese navigators to study wave‑piloting — an ...
Isotopic analyses of Apollo lunar samples, Earth rocks and Antarctic meteorites indicate the Moon‑forming impa...
Researchers analyzing audio from the Perseverance rover have confirmed the first electrical discharges inside Martian dust storms. Published in Nature , the study shows triboelectric charging among dust grains ...
TESS detected starquakes in a rapidly rotating red giant in Gaia BH2 (~3,800 light-years away), revealing an "...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object, is expected to pass about 170 million miles from Earth on December 19. An Oc...
Trained macaque monkeys were able to synchronize hand taps to the beats of recorded songs, including a pop tra...
The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam has produced the most detailed images yet of the Red Spider Nebula, re...
A gray whale carcass found in 2009 on the Clayoquot Slope continues to support a diverse deep-sea community ne...
A three-orca pod off Madeira attacked and killed a pygmy sperm whale, producing an 80-foot red-brown slick. Ca...
ESA and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) are recruiting six volunteers for a 100-day isolation study in Colog...
The study analyzes 2,456 mitochondrial genomes alongside Y‑chromosome data, archaeology, climate models and revised mutation rates to support a 60,000–65,000-year arrival in Sahul. It finds at least two distinc...
Italian photographer Valter Binotto filmed a rare ELVES event on Nov. 17 — a millisecond‑long, red ring of lig...
Whole-genome analysis of 70 ancient cats indicates that most modern domestic cats became established in Europe...
Researchers Joseph Aziz and Richard Howl (University of London) publish a Nature paper showing that a classica...
Geologists have completed the offshore geological mapping of Zealandia, documenting nearly two million square ...
Hollywood’s image of a frilled, venom-spitting Dilophosaurus is fictional: later fossils showed the jaw anatom...
Florida's Space Coast reached 101 orbital launches through November, breaking the previous record of 93. Decem...
Short summary: Evolution has not stopped—its pressures and pathways have shifted. Advances like medicine and s...
2 August 2027: A total solar eclipse will cross North Africa, with the greatest point of totality near Luxor, Egypt. The eclipse is expected to produce roughly 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality at its maximum — ...
The article examines eight ancient cultures—the Egyptians, Maya, Babylonians, Chinese, Greeks, Inca, Aborigina...
Statistical significance — popularized by Ronald Fisher — became a dominant but overly simplistic way to judge...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched at 2:44 a.m. on Dec. 1 for the Starlink 6‑86 mission, the 102nd orbital liftoff fro...