NASA is set to launch four astronauts on Artemis II, a 10-day crewed mission around the moon marking humanity's farthest spaceflight in 54 years and a critical step toward lunar surface landing before China.
NASA's New Horizons data suggests Pluto harbors a subsurface liquid ocean despite extreme cold, challenging assumptions about how small distant worlds lose internal heat over billions of years.
H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in Australia for the first time, marking the virus's arrival on every continent. The discovery was made by a veterinarian during a beach walk on remote sub-Antarctic islands.
HD 189733b appears Earth-blue from space, but its cobalt color stems from silicate hazes in a 1,000°C atmosphere with 7,000 km/h winds, not oceans. The first exoplanet to have its visible color directly measured reveals how deceptive distant planetary appearances can be.
HD 189733b appears blue from space but lacks oceans; its color stems from silicate particles in an extreme atmosphere with sideways glass rain and thousand-kilometer-per-hour winds.
O Mar de Aral perdeu 90% do volume desde 1960 devido a desvios de rios para irrigação soviética, transformando-se em deserto tóxico e causando uma das maiores tragédias ambientais modernas.
A West Australian veterinarian discovered Australia's first confirmed H5 bird flu case while walking on a beach near Esperance, with a second case identified days later, prompting public health alerts.
Scientists discovered fungi living inside desert moss cells, suggesting mosses participate in symbiotic relationships previously thought exclusive to other plants. The finding rewrites understanding of how Earth's earliest land plants colonized dry environments 470 million years ago.
UC Riverside researchers discovered mycorrhizal fungi living inside desert moss tissues, challenging decades of scientific assumption that mosses lack fungal partnerships and potentially reshaping understanding of early plant evolution.
Oregon State researchers discovered bat rays produce chemical cues to alert others of danger, a previously undocumented anti-predator behavior in cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays.
Research indicates specific cognitive abilities are highly heritable traits separate from general intelligence, suggesting genetic factors play distinct roles in different mental capabilities.
German researchers replicated a landmark 1924 developmental biology experiment in comb jellies, finding that the embryonic 'organizer' system dates back 700 million years to the dawn of multicellular life.
Un microbiólogo de la Universidad de Salamanca aclara que aunque los mosquitos pueden aprender a asociar repelentes con comida en laboratorio, esto es imposible en condiciones naturales y no afecta la eficacia de estos productos.
A 3-5 foot meteor over Massachusetts released energy equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, part of an active season of cosmic impacts. Earth's atmosphere shields us effectively, with direct human strikes statistically rare.
Astronomers have confirmed a third galaxy lacking dark matter, challenging conventional cosmological models and potentially reshaping understanding of galaxy formation and dark matter's role in the universe.
Astronomers discovered a third galaxy lacking dark matter, NGC 1052-DF9, joining two others in an unusual linear formation 67 million light-years away. The finding suggests these galaxies formed through violent collisions that separated ordinary matter from dark matter.
Webb and Hubble telescopes reveal Terzan 5 contains four stellar generations spanning 12.5 billion years, suggesting it's a rare surviving fragment of the early Milky Way that could explain how galaxies form.
Análisis genético de vacas que sobrevivieron 130 años en la Isla Amsterdam refuta teoría de nanismo insular, revelando que su éxito se debió a diversidad genética mixta presente desde el inicio.
NASA scientists propose establishing a settlement and fuel extraction base on Titan, Saturn's icy moon, to serve as a rest stop for deep space exploration missions.
Astrophysicist Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette, Canada's only James Webb outreach scientist, will present findings on exoplanet atmospheres and galaxy formation at a Nanaimo public event.
La NASA fotografió desde el espacio dos volcanes gemelos en Java, Indonesia, cuya simetría casi perfecta crea una ilusión óptica que recuerda a una calavera alienígena, fenómeno conocido como pareidolia.
NYU researchers discovered that flocking birds and schooling fish coordinate movements using soft crystalline material mechanics, with applications for autonomous vehicles and robotic swarms.
Analysis of 400,000-year-old H. erectus teeth from China reveals genetic evidence that early humans interbred with Denisovans, leaving traces in modern human DNA through protein mutations in tooth enamel.
Researchers demonstrate that continuous parameters in quantum gravity arise from operators within the theory rather than being freely adjustable external values, supporting Einstein's century-old principle about fundamental physics.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected a previously unpredicted source of high-energy particles in the solar corona, challenging existing scientific models of solar physics.
