Volcanoes account for some of Earth's most interesting and violent geographical features, a force for destruction and creation. However, volcanic activity isn't limited to our planet and space volca… [+8018 chars]
An enormous comet that is twice the size of Mount Everest has entered the inner part of our solar system and is about to pass through Earth in July. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), called K2 for short,… [+1912 chars]
An amateur astronomer has done something that could earn the envy of his fellows. Giuseppe Donatiello, a skywatcher, was recently reported by Space.com to have found a fossil galaxy that could help … [+3148 chars]
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is on the eve of a new data harvest with the restart of the LHC for Run 3. The upcoming four-year run will provide a dataset nearly twice the s… [+3425 chars]
DNTP study shows that zebrafish screening protocols affect toxicity outcomes A quantitative assessment of sources of variability in the design of zebrafish experiments could set the groundwork for g… [+10291 chars]
It may seem like technology advances year after year, as if by magic. But behind every incremental improvement and breakthrough revolution is a team of scientists and engineers hard at work.UC Santa … [+5811 chars]
Curing debilitating genetic diseases is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. During the past decade, development of CRISPR technologies and advancements in genetics research brought new ho… [+4572 chars]
After waiting out cloudy weather, the U.S. Space Force launched two satellites atop an Atlas 5 rocket Friday to test ballistic and hypersonic missile early warning and tracking technology and to depl… [+3878 chars]
Curing debilitating genetic diseases is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. During the past decade, development of CRISPR technologies and advancements in genetics research brought new ho… [+4572 chars]
An enormous comet that is twice the size of Mount Everest has entered the inner part of our solar system and is about to pass through Earth in July. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), called K2 for short,… [+1912 chars]
A Solar and Heliospheric Observatory image shows Region 486 that unleashed a record flare last week ... [+] (lower left) November 18, 2003 on the sun. The spot itself cannot yet be seen but large, ho… [+7183 chars]
Its nice to have a feel-good story every once in a while, so heres one to hold off the existential dread: the Earth isnt likely to get flung off into deep space for at least 100,000 years. In fact, a… [+3602 chars]