Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers’ hearts miss a beat. We are… [+5071 chars]
As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the oce… [+6532 chars]
Ethical approval All experimental animal care was performed in accordance with institutional and national guidelines and regulations. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Animal Care… [+5164 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is digging into the surface of the Red Planet on the hunt for evidence of running water in the planet's past — and signs of ancient Mars life, if it ever existed. Pers… [+3088 chars]
(Photo: Zeke Tucker/Unsplash) If youre looking for an excuse to rave about Fluffy, this might be your chance. Scientists are looking for cat owners for a new study focused on feline body language.Re… [+2367 chars]
Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, are featured in this false-color image captured on September 24, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.… [+2820 chars]
Both the CheMin and SAM instruments have dined on the Avanavero drill samples and have decided their appetites are sated. CheMin has completed X-ray diffraction mineralogical analysis of the Avanaver… [+2803 chars]
Weather scientists at MetService said they possibly spotted the object or its smoke trail on the radar. A burning meteor-like fireball flashed across the sky over Wellington, New Zealand, on Thursda… [+1873 chars]
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris. Junk like used satell… [+4175 chars]
Look up at the waxing gibbous with a pair of binoculars or a small telescope on Saturday (July 9) and enjoy the surface light effect known as the "Golden Handle". This interesting lunar feature appe… [+2288 chars]
Photosynthesis is one of the most important chemical reactions on our planet, responsible directly and indirectly for the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat. It is powered by sunlight, with about … [+2411 chars]
Three of the four science instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have completed their commissioning activities and are ready for science. Each of Webb's instruments has multiple modes of o… [+2726 chars]
