Astronomers have discovered two new satellite galaxies in the Milky Way, and these discoveries could help us better understand dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of…
A group of scientists at the Field Museum in Chicago recently discovered fossilized grape seeds that could link dinosaurs to today's many wine offerings. The South American study found nine…
Boeing's Starliner capsule is performing well enough on its first astronaut mission that it will likely be able to stay in orbit beyond the original 45-day limit, NASA says.Starliner, which…
Images from camera traps in Udzungwa. From left: female leopard, hyena, male leopard. Credit: Rasmus W. Havmøller Who is stronger? A lone leopard or giggling hyenas? And what is the…
Laser light passing through the transparent crystal and exciting the thorium nucleus. Credit: James Terhune, Hudson Group, UCLA For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could…
This image from the simulation shows a supermassive black hole, or quasar, surrounded by a rotating disk of material called an accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group A team of…
Falcon 9 is ready for a Starlink mission at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral. File photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is preparing to launch a batch of Starlink satellites using…
The small roundworm C.elegans is the focus of a new study examining 3'UTRs. These short segments of RNA play a critical role in gene regulation. The resulting map, the product…
Credit: Harrison Haynes from Pexels The remarkable aurora at the beginning of May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but sometimes the sun does…
Top line The Northern Lights are forecast to return this week to the continental US after a weekend display in northern and eastern states - a pre-show for the much…