A recent study details the genome of the highly prized white oak. The white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone species in ...
Scientists are exploring how animal models—hibernators, extremophiles, and small organisms—can help counteract the health ...
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a small but powerful satellite, is set to launch Wednesday evening. Its mission? To understand how ...
Astronomers have known for some time that nearby supernovae have had a profound effect on Earth’s evolution. For starters, ...
Gordon Cordeiro walked out of the Maui Community Correctional Center to cheers and lei after wearing a prison jumpsuit just ...
Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Science and ...
William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102.
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid ... Life on Earth, as we currently understand it, is based on the interplay of DNA, RNA and proteins. DNA serves as the blueprint of ...
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
And the watch parties don't have to be limited to Earth. NASA will be providing a live uplink of the Super Bowl to the International Space Station (ISS), should the astronauts onboard "choose to ...
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of ...