If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In...
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What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep...
Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic...
Scientists have long known that Earth’s core is mostly made of iron, but the density is not...
For the first time, scientists have recorded how baby dunnarts, tiny carnivorous marsupials from Australia, reach their...
NASA’s plans to get the first human spaceflight of the year off the pad have to hold...
Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee...
What was the political and economic importance of the ancient city Alexandria on the Tigris? How was...
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of “Big Bang,” called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe...
When banks crowd a lending market, you can forget the traditional relationship of supply and demand, in...
This stunning image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in...
Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS...
NASA is now aiming to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, in...
On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source...
In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the...
The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An...
Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter...
Using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR...
This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting...
Under the leadership of the University of Bonn, a research team led by Prof. Dr. Pavel Kroupa...