Archerfishes are the anti-aircraft gunners of the aquatic world. The fishes are famed for their amazing ability to shoot down land-based insects midflight with highly accurate streams of water they p… [+5357 chars]
When NASA sent humans to the moon in 1969, one of the many hazards the agency had to anticipate was space rocks penetrating astronauts' spacesuits or equipment. Unlike Earth , which has a protective… [+3534 chars]
How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own solar system. However, the discovery of planets around dista… [+6788 chars]
New Haven, Conn. —Yale scientists uncover key regulator of body weight. Yale scientists have discovered that a protein known as augmentor-alpha regulates body weight in mice, an insight that could l… [+4196 chars]
How fast are you moving right now? Maybe youre reading this while sitting at home, where it seems as though youre not moving at all. Stand still or sit down, and it feels like you are stationary, yet… [+4877 chars]
A high amplitude light beam was discovered radiating from the farthest extent beyond interplanetary space ever. It's a form of inextensible astronomical particle known as a megamaser, and its radiat… [+3890 chars]
A chromosome connected to auditory maturation in adults has recently been associated to perceptual growth in marine invertebrates as well. The pou-iv (pow-four) genotype is discovered in the appenda… [+3692 chars]
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]
April 14 Time: 7 p.m. PDT (10 p.m. EDT; 0300 UTC) NASA is working on a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, natural hazard mitiga… [+500 chars]
More than 13 months after the Perseverance rover landed on Mars (on February 18, 2021), the rovers cameras have finally spotted some of the parts of the Mars 2020 landing system that got the rover sa… [+3743 chars]
Photographer Christy Turner captured the Aurora Borealis on Sunday near Calgary, Alberta. Christy Turner/Spaceweather.com A blast of charged particles from the sun created an unexpected geomagnetic… [+1802 chars]
An almost full Pink Moon is seen in the sky behind the Statue of Liberty as the sun rises on April ... [+] 26, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Getty Images Wait. A pink… [+3776 chars]
