NASA's Voyager 1 is continuing its journey beyond our solar system, 45 years after it was launched. But now the veteran spacecraft is sending back strange data, puzzling its engineers. NASA said on … [+2397 chars]
Researchers report the first comprehensive account of the Hunga volcano eruption’s atmospheric waves. The Hunga volcano ushered in 2022 with a bang, devastating the island nation of Tonga and sendin… [+5570 chars]
What's in a head? According to new research, a little bit of our ancestors' tails. In the early days of complex, multicellular life on Earth, animals started out without any spines or brains. They o… [+2661 chars]
On Thursday, aerospace company Boeing is set to conduct a critical test flight of its new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner a mission that will launch the gumdrop-shaped capsule to the Inte… [+11086 chars]
A critical goal in genetics and evolution is predicting the effects of mutations that may happen in the future and inferring the effects of those that happened in the past. To make these predictions,… [+7260 chars]
Many age-related diseases share a common feature: the mitochondria of cells begin to malfunction. While the cause is not known, Buck Institute scientists have discovered a new mechanism of how mitoch… [+4952 chars]
NASA has formally started the process of envisaging the first crewed missions to Mars, including soliciting input from academics and international and industry partners in addition to their own staff… [+3552 chars]
ByNASAMay 19, 2022 An afternoon on Mars: NASAs Perseverance Mars rover used its Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to acquire this image after driving on sol 428. The view is behind the rover towards … [+3011 chars]
Take a good look at the latest image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a huge elliptical galaxy called NGC 474 that lies about 100 million light-years away from us. At about two and a … [+4174 chars]
Scientists have asked Brits to avoid touching bits of meteor which has landed in the UK and it's not for what you might think. This comes after a 'spectacular meteor fireball' was said to have dropp… [+2605 chars]
The discovery of fossils or ghosts of plankton that lived millions of years ago is shedding new light on how they reacted to global warming events in the past. An international team of scientists ha… [+3784 chars]
Newswise — In recent years crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members of the public to help collect data, has been tremendously helpful to provide researchers with unique and rich datasets, whi… [+4768 chars]