The asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 OE2 whizzed past Earth in the early hours of August 4, at 12:23 a.m. (ET). Although NASA's astronomers keep a check on all Near-Earth objects (NEOs) for any potenti… [+1234 chars]
Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Florida's Space Coast on Thursday was busier than it's been in decades, launching two separate rockets on the same day for the first time since the heyday of the Space Race. SpaceX's… [+3337 chars]
Researchers propose a two-step regulatory mechanism for non-Rabl configurations of centromeres in the nucleus. Centromeres are chromosomal domains that link pairs of sister chromatids together durin… [+3688 chars]
Astronomers have for the first time observed an explosive neutron star merger, an event known as a kilonova in millimetre light. The flash of light was among the most energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs… [+3443 chars]
Mammoth bones and ghost footprints of ancient people are the latest evidence in a scientific debate about when the first humans reached the Americas. The fossilized bones, in particular, could sugg… [+5680 chars]
Scientists have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. The team also confirmed this flash of light to be one of the most… [+5671 chars]
The stars have not been aligned for Europe's first Martian rover ExoMars, but scientists still think the aging vehicle can play a big role in answering one of the biggest questions in Mars exploratio… [+9112 chars]
The search for an Earth-like planet has taken astronomers not just behind our solar system, but also behind the Milky Way Galaxy and a new planet has raised expectations. Astronomers have discovered … [+2954 chars]
NASAs Lucy spacecraft is heading towards the Earth for a gravity assist this October, nearly a year after it was launched on October 16 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. However… [+3901 chars]
Researchers have tracked four previous supervolcano eruptions and found that the magma accumulates for millions of years deep within the Earth's crust, before it rapidly rises to the surface. Plutons… [+2324 chars]
In 2014, an object crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Data collected at the time indicated that the meteorite just might be an interstellar object, and if that's true, the… [+5206 chars]
The spacecraft will use Venus to slightly slow itself and adjust its trajectory for an optimal path toward the first perihelion of the Sun on November 5 this year NASA NASA's historic mission to so… [+3032 chars]
