IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Kokoro Hosogi, an undergraduate student, contributed to a groundbreaking study published in Nature. 🔭 The research utilized observations from the XRISM telescope to explore the dynamics of intergalactic gas. 💫 Discovery revealed the Centaur…

Piece by piece, stage by stage, gonna get this rocket made.

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed Antikythera Mechanism and in so doing have found that manufacturing inaccuracies may have caused the device to jam so often it would h…

Mission team members are investigating how the anomaly may affect plans to study another asteroid.

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

New three-dimensional (3D) models of objects in space have been released by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 3D models allow people to explore — and

When a husky named Miss Honey and her puppy arrived as strays at the Kentucky Humane Society, it was clear to shelter staff how devoted they were to each other. And when the puppy needed surgery, her mom was there every step of the way.

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers …

A new study shows how the Sun and Earth's atmosphere destroy life-bearing meteoroids before they reach the planet.

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long known about the chamber's existence, but have yet to precisely locate its uppermost boundary and characterize the contents of the cha…

Montana State University scientists designed a living concrete using fungi and bacteria that can repair itself and stay viable for weeks.

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations.

The findings from this research can open new avenues to optimize the reaction and lower the cost of clean hydrogen fuel.

A teenager's summer project at Caltech just rewrote the rules of space discovery. His homemade AI scanned billions of data points from a forgotten NASA mission. What it found could change how we see the universe.

Building an observatory on the Moon would be a huge challenge—but it would be worth it.

The bipartisan co-chairs of a congressional caucus have criticized proposed cuts in NASA’s science programs, marking the first Republican opposition in Congress to the plans.

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever seen before.