Forget dinosaurs engaged in vicious combat. Put aside terrifying fangs and claws. Scientists have discovered a softer side to dinosaurs: the reptilian equivalent of a belly button. For the first tim… [+6960 chars]
Earth's magnetic field may not be heading toward a dramatic flip anytime soon, according to scientists who analyzed anomalies in the planet's invisible shield against solar wind and other radiation. … [+1823 chars]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is gearing up to start operations this summer, and one of its many assignments will be to search for primeval black holes in the early universe. A supermassive bla… [+3185 chars]
Cryospheric ecosystems are some of the oldest on the planet. EPFL scientists have found that the microorganisms living in them have a unique genetic signature. They performed an inventory of the micr… [+3722 chars]
TAMPA, Fla. Egyptian operator NileSats latest communications satellite is ready to move to its final orbit after clearing health checks following its June 8 SpaceX launch, according to the spacecraft… [+1863 chars]
NASA's Curiosity Rover has captured images of strange rock pillars on Mars. The size of the pillars is not apparent from the images. Over tens of thousands of years, material sinking to the bottom of… [+1739 chars]
WASHINGTON A delay in the launch of NASAs Psyche asteroid mission is forcing another asteroid mission hitching a ride to revise its plans. Janus, a NASA smallsat mission selected in 2019, will launc… [+5703 chars]
In almost every human cell, 2 meters of DNA has to fit within a nucleus that is just 8 millionths of a meter wide. Like wool around a spool, the extreme space challenge requires DNA to wrap around st… [+4674 chars]
Curiosity has improved space research since Sputnik 1 was inaugurated 65 years back. However, we’re only starting to scratch the exterior of what is known regarding different planetary cores in the s… [+1176 chars]
Whether you’re a regular gym-goer with muscle-building constantly on the mind, or a fitness-tracker buff with eyes set firmly on that daily 10,000, you’ll surely have thought, does walking build musc… [+6365 chars]
In almost every human cell, two metres-long DNA has to fit within a nucleus that is just 8 millionths of a metre wide. Like wool around a spool, the extreme space challenge requires DNA to wrap aroun… [+4278 chars]
Pebble accretion is now a favored theory for how gas giant cores are made, and many astronomers argue it may be taking place in those ALMA images, allowing giant planets to form in the first few mill… [+6643 chars]
