A new NASA study has discovered a new exoplanet that is almost the size of Earth and orbits a star that's the same type as the Sun. Unfortunately, this promising candidate is also tidally locked and has one side so hot that it's one giant sea of lava.

On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You'll only find it if you know where to look.

While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought. According to research published in ACS Central Science, the ...

If true, this could mark an astronomy breakthrough.

Finally, that gifted kid math class has paid off.

An experiment conducted in Italy, with theory support from Newcastle University, has produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay.

A small brain sample was sliced into 5,000 pieces, and machine learning helped stitch it back together.

Electric fields near Earth’s surface are stronger than expected

A new construction biomaterial that uses living microorganisms to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has been developed by a UCL graduate student and colleagues.

Researchers working along the 500-mile long Bounty Trough initially thought the find was a sea star or sea anemone.

Officially known as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, the comet has been compared with the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars because of its pair of 'horns' seen in images.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, effects of which are expected to last over the weekend and even next week.

The necropolis dates to the Copper Age and contains 22 tombs.

When two lead ions collide at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they produce an extremely hot and dense state of matter in which quarks and gluons are not confined inside composite particles called hadrons. ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is issuing a construction permit for a new type of nuclear reactor that uses molten salt to cool the reactor core.

Our Milky Way bristles with giant molecular clouds birthing stars. Based on what we see here, astronomers assume that the process of star creation also goes on similarly in other galaxies. It makes sense ...

Ancient footprints across the Atlantic Ocean offer clues to the dinosaur's last intercontinental journey.

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Scientists have discovered 'alien metals' in treasure from 3,000 years ago, scientists have revealed.

Astronomers have discovered a type of exoplanet called a "super-Earth" located in the habitable zone of its small star - and it's right in our cosmic backyard.

A team of paleontologists from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has identified ...

Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere — a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life.

Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident, however, a microscopic creature -- a choanoflagelatte -- that forms colonies that harbor their own unique bacterial microbiomes. The creature, part of the sister group to all animals, could shed light on the evolution of animals' intimate interactions with bacteria and the rise of multicellular life.

In the animal kingdom, there are many grand examples of species that make sense of their world by expertly deciphering even weak signals from their surroundings.

Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China's Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don't take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues.

Human cells contain ribosomes, a complex machine that produces proteins for the rest of the body. Now the researchers have come closer to understanding how the ribosome works.

Thousands of years ago, a large swath of the Sahara may have been a green grassland ideal for raising cattle.

The shrimp can navigate thanks to chemicals produced by other organisms.

The federal government begins its assault on cow burps and farts with the following inspirational message.

Enceladus has long fascinated scientists with its mysterious plumes of ice grains and water vapor, which are known to contain organic compounds. However, this latest research goes further by confirming the existence of hydrogen cyanide within these plumes.

A study from the United States has, for the first time, found microplastics in human brains. What exactly are microplastics? What do they mean for our health? Should we be concerned?

Understanding the risk of compound energy droughts -- times when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow -- will help grid planners understand where energy storage is needed most.

New research has cracked a vital process in the creation of a unique rock type from the moon. The discovery explains its signature composition and very presence on the lunar surface at all, unraveling ...

Ladakh's harsh climate, characterised by high UV radiation, extreme temperature fluctuations, and limited water availability, makes it an ideal terrestrial analogue for Martian conditions.

In the midst of an airplane incident, an iPhone, belonging to a passenger survived the 16,000-foot fall and remained fully functional.

A heavy snowpack is fun for skiers and sledders, and it also acts like an open-air storage tank that melts away to provide water for drinking, irrigation and other purposes during dry months.

High levels of free amino acids in tea leaves are crucial for tea flavor and health function.

Tsunamis rarely hit Britain, but one did 8,200 years ago.Researchers wanted to know how the massive waves might have affected Stone Age populations.They

NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered Dragonfly rotorcraft to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns.

China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe returned to Earth on Tuesday, bringing back the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon.

Scientists have uncovered new insights into the protoribosome, a molecular fossil within the ribosome, which plays a key role in the origin of life on Earth.

A study from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which combines laboratory chemistry with astrophysics, has shown for the first time that grains of dust formed by carbon and hydrogen ...

A research team has successfully simulated extreme conditions similar to the ones found inside stars and planets

Aliens could be living in a giant sea. Scientists have discovered the largest reservoir ever detected, which contains 140 trillion times the amount of all | The Eastern Herald

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unleashed fascinating images, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the heart of nearby spiral galaxies

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice. Researchers at Purdue used data from NASA's Dawn mission to show that Ceres' crust could be over 90 percent ice.

A collaborative team of experimental and computational physical chemists from South Korea and the United States has made an important discovery in the field of electrochemistry, shedding light on the ...

The research, conducted at the Early Life Traces & Evolution laboratory of ULiege's Astrobiology Research Unit, involved meticulous examination of enigmatic microfossils known as Navifusa majensis (N.majensis) found within the ancient shales.

A new study has confirmed the long-held assumption that orcas take just one breath between dives.