The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn't have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that t - Space Daily
The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021, astronomers expecte...
The Opportunity rover survived on Mars for 14 years — roughly 55 times longer than its 90-day design mission — before a 2018 global dust storm so vast it turned "day into night" across the entire planet buried its solar panels, and despite NASA sending more t - Space Daily
In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags, rolled to ...
Bioengineers condense protein engineering and testing to a single day - Phys.org
Proteins are critical to life—and to industry. There are countless proteins that could be engineered to treat and even...
The structure of water: Entropy determines whether ions stick - Phys.org
Water molecules do not simply swirl around in complete disorder; they can form certain preferred structures. This scient...
A physicist's fresh look at the 'prisoner's dilemma' reveals hope for cooperation - Phys.org
The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain...
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st-ever Starship V3 test gets new launch date - Space
SpaceX is targeting a Wednesday, May 20, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket. See our late...
Findings reconsider the existence of Europa's vapor plumes - Phys.org
Looking back at 14 years of Hubble telescope data for Jupiter's moon Europa has given Southwest Research Institute (SwRI...
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system? - Space
"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."...
The Satellite Industry Boom Is Driving an ‘Untested Geoengineering Experiment,’ Scientists Warn - Gizmodo
Companies are launching satellites en masse and polluting the atmosphere in the process....
Lost Tethys Ocean May Have Forged Central Asia’s Mountainous Landscapes Millions of Years Ago - Indian Defence Review
A vanished ocean may have sculpted Central Asia’s dinosaur-era mountains, revealing new forces behind ancient geologic...
One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions - Ars Technica
I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."...
White hydrogen discovered in billion-year-old Canadian Shield rock points to potential new energy source - Phys.org
Within the Canadian Shield, hydrogen gas is steadily building up naturally among some of the oldest rocks on Earth. Now,...
Ancient Arctic fossils uncover three mammal species that survived months of darkness - Phys.org
Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for ...
Scientists Brought Back the Face of a 3,500-Year-Old Woman Who Lived Before the Trojan War - The Daily Galaxy
She was buried beside a man with three swords and a gold mask. For decades, archaeologists assumed she was just his wife...
Debunking a core chemistry concept taught in classrooms everywhere - Phys.org
A new study has revealed that a core idea taught in chemistry classrooms around the world may be wrong. Dr. Edwin Johnso...
NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars - NASA Science (.gov)
In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an...
Thinking Longer Leads to Worse Decisions - Neuroscience News
Faster decisions in professional chess yield higher quality results, showing that overthinking hinders intuitive success...
Northern lights may be visible in several US states tonight as 3 CMEs race toward Earth - Space
Forecasts say up to three glancing CME impacts could trigger G1 and possible G2 geomagnetic storms through May 20, boost...
This Strange “Golden Orb” Found 2 Miles Deep Stumped Scientists for Years - SciTechDaily
Scientists have finally identified the mysterious “golden orb” discovered deep in the Gulf of Alaska during a NOAA e...
During A Hike, Scientists Discovered That A Cliff In Alaska Revealed Thousands Of Well-Preserved Dinosaur Tracks At Sunset - The Daily Galaxy
Hidden for millions of years, these mysterious tracks in remote Alaska only became visible under the perfect lighting co...
The crescent Moon meets Venus and Jupiter this week – and the show starts tonight. Here's how to see it - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
See the thin crescent Moon meet Venus then Jupiter in the early evening sky during the week beginning 18 May 2026....
NASA Researchers Have Discovered Something Unexpected in These Haunting New Maps of Earth’s Artificial Light - The Debrief
Subtle changes are occurring in the nighttime world on our planet, according to NASA scientists who say an unexpected pa...
Scientists Just Discovered Hidden “Brakes” Beneath the Pacific That Stop Massive Earthquakes - The Daily Galaxy
A mysterious underwater fault has been producing nearly identical earthquakes for decades, and researchers finally think...
A climate-chaos triple-whammy has pushed Antarctica to the edge - Oceanographic Magazine
A University of Southampton study has identified the three-stage process behind Antarctica's record sea ice collapse....