NASA originally planned to announce that it was bringing its iconic "worm" logo back on Wednesday, but the agency was afraid people would take it as an April ...
For the first time since the final space shuttle mission in 2011, astronauts will launch into space aboard an American rocket and spacecraft from American soil, ...
The results are in and, no surprise, a lot of people want to be a NASA astronaut. More than 12,000 people have applied to join what NASA is calling the "Artemis ...
Filled with more than 4000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is set to leave the International ...
The coronavirus crisis is forcing people to stay and work from home but spotting the space station can be done while practicing safe social distancing.
Thanks to observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found their "missing link" to understand how black holes evolve. They were able to ...
The huge mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope -- its successor to Hubble -- has been successfully tested for the first time, putting it one step closer to ...
A new analysis of Hubble data has revealed the best candidate yet for a type of black hole that nobody has seen yet, and it gave itself away by tearing a star ...
Experts from the University of New Hampshire in Durham say it is about 50000 times larger than the Sun and is a 'missing link' in the evolution of the universe.
There could be as many as 3 billion people living under coronavirus lockdown. Places of work, worship and relaxation are off-limits around the world. Normal ...
The International Space Station orbits the Earth 16 times a day, and you can spot it from the comfort of your own home. These are the apps you'll need.
Three NASA astronauts will participate in a live media teleconference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, April 10. The teleconference will stream on NASA TV and the ...
The International Space Station which came into existence in 1998 has been in space for more than 15 years and orbits our planet sixteen times in a day.
NASA is bringing the universe straight to your living room with new internet and social media special, NASA at Home. The space agency is offering it to help ...
NASA has launched its "NASA At Home" website, full of educational *content* geared to keep children engaged with science as most schools nationwide are ...
Coronavirus may have inadvertently caused Earth to vibrate less, with lockdown measures leading to a huge drop in the use of industrial machinery and ...
The effects of the coronavirus shutdown are being felt everywhere, even in the Earth's crust.The decrease in activity and transportation have led to a noticeable ...
In Belgium, seismologists say that the current mean noise level is 33 percent lower than before stay-at-home measures were implemented just two weeks ago.
The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus ...
In 1974, the world was stunned by the discovery of “Lucy,” the partial skeleton of a human ancestor that walked upright—and still spent time in the trees—3.2 ...
Lucy's kind had small, chimplike brains that, nevertheless, grew at a slow, humanlike pace. This discovery, reported April 1 in Science Advances, shows for the ...
The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is ...
Within our extended primate family consisting of lemurs, monkeys, and apes, humans have the largest brains. Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, weigh ...
NASA has completed final testing of its Mars Helicopter, which is set to become the first aircraft to fly on another planet during the Mars 2020 mission.
NASA's Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage undergo functional testing in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on ...
NASA has successfully tested its Mars helicopter that is set to be a part of NASA's Perseverance rover for its Mission Mars. The US space agency will be ...
The James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2021, will have the largest mirror NASA has ever built. A successful test of the 21-foot mirror is the next ...
In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space. As Webb ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has crossed another milestone on the path to its long-awaited launch. NASA engineers have now completed a deployment ...
In many neurodegenerative disorders, the spread of protein aggregates underlies disease progression in the brain. A receptor molecule has now been found ...
In the fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the tau protein is a major ...
In the next few decades, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), China, and Russia all plan to create outposts on the lunar surface that will allow for a ...
Genetic information from an 800000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results shed light on one of the branching points in the ...
Two studies of ancient humans have shed new light on the last common ancestor we share with Neanderthals. An extinct species that was once in the frame ...
When it comes to deciphering our ancient family tree, DNA from fossils is the new gold standard. But after about half a million years, even the best-preserved ...
Genetic information from an 800000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one ...
The Mars Helicopter is riding to the Red Planet this summer with NASA's Perseverance rover. The helicopter's chief engineer, Bob Balaram, shares the saga of ...
NASA's Perseverance rover, which is set to deploy to Mars this July, is traveling to the red planet with a hidden message on board — in addition to the names of ...
With its launch just over three months away, NASA's Perseverance rover is undergoing final critical pre-launch testing and checkouts at the Kennedy Space ...
The spread of protein aggregates during disease progression is a common theme underlying many neurodegenerative diseases. The microtubule-associated ...
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A partial skeleton of Homo naledi represents a rare case of an immature individual, shedding light on the evolution of growth and development in human ...
Scientists say the young Homo naledi was between 8-15 years old. Further research could determine whether the species was more ape-like or human-like in its ...
More than 200,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, a child, standing about three feet tall, somehow died before reaching adulthood. The young human ...
Homo naledi, an ancient species of human, practiced a custom that's now boon to scientists: Just like modern-day humans, they intentionally buried their dead.
The biggest and brightest supermoon of the year is set to take place in April. The pink supermoon, sometimes called a Paschal full moon, will take place on April ...
On April 7, 2020, the skies will be lit up with a Super "Pink" Moon — the brightest and biggest full moon we will encounter all year! Though Earth's natural ...
A supermoon is just around the corner, and while the current COVID-19 crisis means you won't be able to go far to see it, there is a good chance you could be ...
A study published in Science Advances on April 1 reveals a new hypothesis that may explain why European cave bears went extinct during past climate change ...
The huge cave bears that once roamed Europe may have gone extinct because their large sinuses made it difficult to adapt their diet during a severe cold snap.
The cave bear is one of the best known extinct large mammals that inhabited Europe during the “Ice Age,” becoming extinct ≈24,000 years ago along with other ...
Even on four legs, ancient cave bears towered over the early humans who encountered them. As recently as 24,000 years ago, these monster bears lurked in ...
The Broken Hill skull has long been considered one of the key hominin fossils found in Africa, a possible relative of modern humans. It was recovered from cave ...
Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge ...
A mysterious but well-preserved hominid skull found nearly a century ago comes from a population that lived in Africa around 300,000 years ago, as the earliest ...
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery over the age of a landmark skull found in 1921 in Zambia - the first fossil of an extinct human species discovered ...
Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted process that eventually led to us. Such is ...
Last seen 6000 years ago by ancient civilizations, the “brilliant suicidal comet Atlas,” that is half the size of the Sun and is baffling astronomers, is back!
About 90 million years ago, West Antarctica was home to a thriving temperate rainforest, according to fossil roots, pollen and spores recently discovered there, ...
Researchers have discovered evidence that Antarctica had a swampy rainforest 90000 years ago thanks to sediment cores filled with pristine soil and root ...
A team of scientists drilled into the ground near the South Pole to discover forest and fossils from the Cretaceous nearly 90 million years ago, which is the time ...
Following in the footsteps of the late Mk1 vehicle, SpaceX's latest Starship prototype has been outfitted with several Tesla battery packs and motors over the last ...
David Bowie may have been surprisingly prescient with his album titles: a new video shared Wednesday shows the spider-like legs of the SpaceX Starship ...
A discovery by a team of researchers led by UMass Lowell nuclear physicists could change how atoms are understood by scientists and help explain extreme ...
NASA's asteroid tracking system is currently monitoring a building-sized space rock that's expected to approach Earth in April. According to the data collected by ...
April Fools Faced with spiralling costs for its Space Launch System (SLS) and pressure to put American boots on the Moon by 2024, NASA is to return the Saturn ...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...
July 20, 2019 marked the 50-year anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. Though, at the time the Apollo capsule was built, the composites industry was still ...
A SPIDER that resembles one of history's most famous paintings has been discovered in Australia. The arachnid Maratus constellatus is no larger than a grain of ...
A scientist in Australia has discovered seven new species of Peacock Spider, including one that looks just like Van Gogh's iconic painting, Starry Night.
What do Vincent van Gogh's “Starry Night” and spiders have in common? Up until recently, nothing, but that all changed when a new species of spiders was ...
Seven new species of spider have been discovered in Australia. The peacock spider is quite famous because theyuse their colourful bodies to attract females in ...
Peacock spiders are hardly the kind of arachnid worthy of fear; these colorful, rice-sized, eight-legged creatures are famous for their bright, rainbow-hued ...
New research from University of California, Davis, suggests that parents should delay introducing their children to any screen media, as well as limit ...
For years physicists have been trying to decipher the electronic details of high-temperature superconductors. These materials could revolutionize energy ...
For nearly a year, astronaut Christina Koch was away from the planet, working on the International Space Station and orbiting Earth more than 5200 times.
Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a hybrid reactor which uses 'cyborg bacteria' embedded in a forest of nanowires to produce food, fuel and oxygen for ...
If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge range of organic compounds, from fuels to drugs, that are too ...
Researchers have been developing a hybrid system combining bacteria and nanowires that can capture the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and ...
Scientists have developed a biohybrid reactor that can take carbon dioxide and turn it into versatile organic compounds, using bacteria and a forest of nanowires ...
Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which ...
A recent study went full Indiana Jones to show that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, was a cannibal in its earlier years, swallowing five smaller galaxies.
A bright X-ray source in a massive star cluster in the outskirts of 6dFGS gJ215022.2-055059, a barred lenticular galaxy located about 806 million light-years ...
While travel may currently be limited to the scope of our laptops right now, that doesn't mean we can't explore some of the most magnificent places on earth.
In recent years, scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals share a tangled past. In the course of human history, these two ...
Ancient Mars may have received its wealth of water from a couple of major sources, new research suggests. Studying the *content* of Martian meteorites that ...
We used to think of Mars as a bone dry husk of a world. While there is some evidence of occasional flowing water on the surface, most of the planet's water is ...
A team of scientists has developed a new mechanism to harvest stray magnetic fields all around us and convert the energy into useful, usable electricity. Credit: ...
A flocculent spiral galaxy is one where the spiral arms aren't easily discernible. They're beautiful, and they're important objects for scientific study.
Although things are getting pretty stressful here on Earth, it's worth remembering that the universe is still an amazing place. A new image of the galaxy NGC ...
