The rare meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home two years ago contains amino acids and organic compounds, scientists say in a newly published study.
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"Viking more likely than not found autotrophic microbial life on Mars, roughly 1,000 cells per gram."
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Blood bicarbonate rose 7% in 20 years as CO2 in human blood tracks the rising atmosphere, a new study finds.
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The Mississippi kites’ 50-foot-high nest has drawn a stream of awestruck observers.
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Science News: Imagine you’re playing “20 Questions” and you start with the classic opener: “Animal, vegetable, or mineral?” Most of the time, a sea worm would be an.
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Where is the Tesla Roadster that was launched into space? It caused one amateur astronomer to panic, but should we be worried about its current whereabouts?
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Science News: In late 2023, amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was doing something very ordinary: Mapping out forest roads for a summer road trip in Quebec. While zoo.
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The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most anticipated astronomical events of the year.
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Science News: A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth, the Moon and Mars, acco.
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Researchers found adults with brighter, more consistent daytime light had healthier sleep-wake cycles.
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System could enable study of complex biological processes in live animals over long periods with less tissue damage than previous methods.
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Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).
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As millions share their deepest secrets with Claude and ChatGPT, Liam Murphy-Robledo goes back to the source – a 1966 experiment gone wrong. He speaks to the original ELIZA chatbot and discovers the vital difference between it and the bots we use today
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A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, focused on identifying promising fishing areas, flagged a possible deep-water coral reef but assumed it must be dead. Now, using a modern sona…
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The conditions for life may not require starlight at all—just the right moon orbiting the right rogue planet.
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What ground control dismissed as static turned out to be humanity's first whisper from another world.
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Edgar Mitchell coined a private version of it on Apollo 14 in 1971; Frank White gave it a name in 1987; and in April 2026 the Artemis II crew, flying 406,771 kilometres from Earth, described the same shift in almost the same words.
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Scott Kelly and other long-duration ISS crew describe overwhelming smells, painful feet, and a driving sensation that feels remote-controlled after months in microgravity — the nervous system re-learning Earth in real time.
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A broken wheel became a shovel, revealing mineral signatures that suggested Mars once harbored conditions suitable for microbial life.
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A possible solution to Saturn's moon mystery: nitrogen bubbles rising through alien seas as conditions shift beneath the surface.
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The moon has been bathed in solar wind for billions of years, but the two hemispheres are struck by solar wind of different speeds and energies.
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A new study explores the working memory capacity debate, the doorway effect, and how the prefrontal cortex links memory to consciousness.
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Cassini’s radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan’s equatorial regions. Individual ridges are commonly one to two kilometres wide,
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Science News: If you’ve ever watched a “silly sprinkler” in action (those bright, looping contraptions that twist and spray water in wild patterns) you’ve probably .
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For more than a century, astronomers have puzzled over a strange discrepancy in the historical record. Theta Eridani, a modest star in the constellation Eridanus, is the third-brightest star in its constellation, with a magnitude of 2.9. But ancient astronome…
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Science News: A major genetic study has found that koalas almost became extinct about 100,000 years ago because of major climate changes, long before the first huma.
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On 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 passed 6,490 kilometres from Titan’s centre, about 3,900 kilometres above the moon’s hidden surface. The spacecraft flew behind
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Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes. The dust contains complex carbon-rich molecules built from elements essential to life and produces infrared signals similar to real material found in spa…
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Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.
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A partial solar eclipse by day and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower by night make Aug. 12, 2026, one of the best nights for skywatching and camping in years, but only for some parts of North America.
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Richard Jones explains just why prehistoric insects were so large...
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Scientists have recreated a famous black hole phenomenon in the lab using synthetic rotation, bringing a 50-year-old theory closer to real-world technology.
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The mysterious sound known as The Hum has been reported worldwide for decades, yet its source often remains impossible to find. Researchers tested whether people who hear it have exceptional low-frequency hearing or measurable sounds produced inside their ear…
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Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission.
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What if the plants growing in a field could one day produce the same proteins that give milk its nutrition, texture and cheese-making properties? A new study brings that possibility a step closer by revealing an unexpected way plant seeds can manufacture and …
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"What JWST is revealing is that black holes may be the ultimate cosmic recyclers."
Read full article →Here's just how much we stand to lose.
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New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic storms can get.
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An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a peculiar Type Ia supernova designated SN 2023vjh. Results of the observational campaign, published July 9 on the preprint server arXiv, deliver important insights into the nature o…
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Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age.
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How the heck are these weird lil' creatures so cute?!
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Materials in a quantum state come with exotic properties that bend the laws of physics and offer huge potential to scientists – but they're usually also incredibly delicate, and require ultra-low temperatures to exist and function.
Read full article →Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned spectacular images of a near-Earth asteroid following a super-close flyby on July 5, but heated debate was needed befor...
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There are a few contenders for the world's oldest weapon, and one is over 400,000 years old.
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For most of Earth’s history, no trees, grasses or roots held riverbanks together. The familiar geological picture has been that these barren continents were
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Elephants at play do more than chase, spar and wrestle with their trunks. In a study of African savannah elephants, a player that saw a companion perform a
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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, rather than sulfur inside the asteroid, may have delivered t…
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It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid is not frozen. What’s up? Antarctica is the coldest spot on the planet where the average winter temperature is -34.4°C (…
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Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected.
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Clams and snails rule today’s shores because their ancient ancestors survived a catastrophe that erased nearly all ocean life. The shells scattered along modern beaches are clues to an ancient catastrophe. Clams and snails are common today partly because thei…
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Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains because the small planet lost internal
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Ripple, a subadult great white shark tracked by OCEARCH, made an impressive journey in just a week, heading up the coast of Canada.
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A machine-learning system called AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million small image cutouts derived from the Hubble Legacy Archive in roughly two and a half
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Chemists from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have achieved an important research success in the fight against resistant bacteria. The team led by scientist Professor Dr. Dieter Schinzer from the Institute of Chemistry has succeeded in producing key bu…
Read full article →Reflect Orbital has won initial approval for a plan to put thousands of mirrors in orbit that would be visible from anywhere on Earth. But will anyone pay for sunlight?
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The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in preparation for its arrival at asteroid Psyche in 2029.
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The immune system, the body's defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these cases, it can produce too many immune mediators, fragments of genetic material or proteins that regulate immune responses.
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Why does Salt Lake City have bad air quality? What is ozone? Researchers flying high-tech plane to study ozone. What causes Salt Lake air pollution?
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David Johnson, who has died at 69, was a leading owl researcher and conservationist. “I didn’t pick owls,” he said, “they picked me.”
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