NASA launched its Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was NASA's first space mission to study the Trojans, a group of asteroids which orbit… [+2086 chars]
In a ground-breaking achievement, scientists produced the first "synthetic embryos" in the world without the need for sperm, eggs, or fertilisation. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel di… [+1991 chars]
This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jack Baggaley, Professor Eme… [+5056 chars]
MADRID - A red ball of spicy fire with luminous patches glowing menacingly against a black background. This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture tak… [+1681 chars]
Researchers from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London have discovered a wealth of new species that are believed to still be unknown to science in the deep of the Pacific Ocean.During the summer… [+2578 chars]
Pit craters are found on solid bodies throughout our Solar System, including Earth, Venus, the Moon, and Mars. These craters which are not formed by impacts — can be indications of underground lava t… [+3159 chars]
Jesus Rivera liked to scan Craigslist for crashed motorcycles. The first one he ever took home was a totaled green Suzuki GSX-R. It took him about a year, tinkering with wires, cutting metal, and for… [+10269 chars]
A study of zinc isotopes of meteorites suggest that material from the outer Solar System was an important source of volatiles such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and noble gases on Earth. Prev… [+2535 chars]
New findings shed light on how chromosomes manage the various pushing and pulling forces generated when cells divide. Specifically, researchers show that chromosomes resist being punctured by the mic… [+3636 chars]
Scientists, using the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru Telescope (IRD-SSP), have discovered a super-Earth around a red dwarf star - stars smaller than the Sun - about 37 light-years away from … [+1873 chars]
MADRID - A red ball of spicy fire with luminous patches glowing menacingly against a black background. This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture tak… [+1681 chars]
Physicists have just caught light acting the part of 'glue' between atoms, in a kind of loosely bonded molecule. "We have succeeded for the first time in polarizing several atoms together in a contr… [+4564 chars]
