It's rare for moral controversy to surround developments in space-based astronomy, but that may be about to change forever. New information about the namesake of the James Webb Space Telescope has l… [+3935 chars]
Washington: An astronaut, part of the recent private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) American space habitat company Axiom Space, is set to test the making of a liquid telescope mirro… [+2011 chars]
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled an unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy. The interacting galaxy captured in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope is collec… [+984 chars]
A new study by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides the most comprehensive and rigorous evidence yet that the mammalian brain stores a single memory across a wi… [+7889 chars]
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There is much that researchers don't know about the moon, but every day scientists are taking steps toward developing a deeper understanding of its history. A team of researchers are attempting to a… [+2151 chars]
The farthest astronomical object in the universe has been identified: a galaxy called Hd1 that is about 13.5 billion light-years away from us. Born only 300 million years after the Big Bang, it could… [+1934 chars]
image: A schematic diagram showing the novel role of mussel surface protein containing cysteine contributing to maintaining the surface adhesion in the oxidative underwater environment by inducing ta… [+2629 chars]
A presumed dead sunspot exploded on the 11th of April sending large amounts of solar material in our direction. The exploding "corpse" sunspot, AR2987, has sent large amounts of radiation out of the … [+4232 chars]
Methane is the most important hydrocarbon in the atmosphere. It is a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists from Radboud University demonstrated that it could generate power from methane-consuming bacter… [+1662 chars]
NASA's asteroid-orbiting Psyche spacecraft has moved a step closer to lift-off, after being unveiled to the media ahead of its launch this summer. Engineers are putting the final touches on the prob… [+9873 chars]
A collection of neurons that holds specific memory have been identified in the hippocampus, amygdala, or cortex. However, it has been theorized that engrams of a particular memory are distributed amo… [+6213 chars]
