Nov 3, 2022 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers have looked for the effects of massive, close-in planets...

Nov 3, 2022 by News Staff

Researchers have performed a prospective cohort study to understand the association between different sleep behaviors and glaucoma. Insomnia, snoring,...

Oct 31, 2022 by News Staff

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a species of strepsirrhine primate closely related to lemurs and the largest nocturnal primate in the world. The...

Oct 31, 2022 by News Staff

This new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows a diverse region southeast of the Pickering crater...

Oct 28, 2022 by News Staff

On December 24, 2021, NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake with a distinct signature rippling across the surface of Mars. In a pair...

Oct 28, 2022 by News Staff

A major question in Mars history is whether the planet had an ocean in its northern hemisphere. New research provides evidence for a northern ocean or...

Oct 27, 2022 by News Staff

The annual ozone hole over the South Pole reached an average area of 23.2 million km2 (8.9 million square miles) between September 7 and October 13, 2022,...

Oct 27, 2022 by News Staff

The Lucy LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) aboard NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured new close-ups of the lunar surface on October 16, 2022,...

Oct 27, 2022 by News Staff

Scientists have sequenced the chromosome-scale genome of the apple cultivar ‘Honeycrisp,’ which has superior fruit quality traits, cold hardiness,...

Oct 27, 2022 by News Staff

In a new study published this week in the journal Biology Letters, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and elsewhere tested...

Oct 25, 2022 by News Staff

A study performed on a cohort of 16 companion cats suggests that cats can discriminate speech specifically addressed to them from speech addressed to adult...

Oct 25, 2022 by News Staff

The Earth’s atmosphere is always electrified to a greater or lesser extent, even in fair weather away from thunderstorms. By measuring the electrical...

Oct 25, 2022 by News Staff

Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), popularly known as UFOs, are of interest for both national security and air safety and NASA’s independent study...

Oct 25, 2022 by News Staff

In the 1920s, biologists proposed that butterfly wing pattern diversity evolved as variations of a ground plan of pattern elements that vary in color,...

Oct 23, 2022 by News Staff

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two tails of dust ejected from the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits a larger,...

Oct 21, 2022 by News Staff

Gliese 1252b, a super-Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-dwarf star 67 light-years away, retains only a tenuous mineral exosphere. An artist’s impression...

Oct 20, 2022 by News Staff

The red quasar the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope observed, called SDSS J165202.64+172852.3 (SDSSJ1652 for short), resides in a very dense environment...

Oct 20, 2022 by News Staff

Scientists at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience say they may have witnessed entanglement mediated by consciousness-related brain functions. Christian...

Oct 20, 2022 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered the unusual DNA structures within Methanoperedens — a group of archaea that...

Oct 20, 2022 by News Staff

Using 18 all-sky maps produced by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), astronomers have created what is essentially...