A planet 'almost identical' to Jupiter has been spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years from Earth by NASA's Kepler telescope, scientists have revealed. The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is alm… [+8442 chars]
Volcanic activity beneath the surface of Mars could be responsible for triggering repetitive Marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, in a specific region of the Red Planet, researchers from The… [+4056 chars]
The Goldilocks zone gets its name from the fairy tale, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Goldilocks is a fussy little girl whose porridge has to be just right — neither too hot nor too cold. It’s the… [+7761 chars]
Enlarge/ NASA's large rocket will undergo a dress rehearsal this weekend. 20 with 12 posters participating After two weeks of preparatory work on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, NASA is rea… [+4300 chars]
Published in the journal science under the unassuming title Filling the Gaps, researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have reported an advance that may prove instrumental in scient… [+1666 chars]
NASA has its eye on a large asteroid that's heading our way. Asteroid 2007 FF1 could be up to 558 feet wide, making it almost twice the size of the Statue of Liberty. The asteroid is bigger than th… [+1443 chars]
Scientists have created a magnetically-manipulated slime robot. But why? It turns out there are lots of applications for a controllable substance that can fit into tight spaces. As seen inNew Scienti… [+1730 chars]
A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it's even less of a threat than astronomers had feared. The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always t… [+3712 chars]
Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called The Age of Dinosaurs, one question asked frequently by undergraduates stuck with him: Why are the arms of Tyrannosaur… [+8719 chars]
The view of the region in space where the Jupiter-like planet was found. University of Manchester Scientists have discovered a distant planet similar to Jupiter using data taken from the retired Ke… [+1966 chars]
Semiconducting perovskites that exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature do so due to built-in thermal "shock absorbers" which protect dipoles within the material from thermal interference. A ne… [+3101 chars]
Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center <ul><li>To look for black holes around the “Spiderweb” galaxy, astronomers observed for over 8 days with NASA’… [+4772 chars]
