Almost 50 years have passed since NASA collected samples of the Moon during the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and 1970s. Expedition 59 - scheduled for March 29 - includes astronauts Anne McCla...

The team experimented with what they called are "well-preserved" tissue samples from the animal's bone marrow and muscle, which allowed them to collect as many as 88 nucleus-like structures, further s...

In this case it was a solar proton event or SPE, a particularly intense type of solar storm where the released particles include high-energy protons. By drilling deep into 100,000-year-old ice in Gr...

According to reports, the salmon would take time to reach the markets as it would take approximately 18 months for them to grow to their target weights. However, in 2016 , Congress directed FDA not...

The automaker's fuel cells use clean power-generation methods and only emit water and have reduced amounts of harmful substances that the auto company is working to improve, Toyota Executive Vice Pres...

Bridenstine was asked whether women will be included in the agency's next trip to the moon. He replied: 'Absolutely. These are great days.' Bridenstine added: 'The first person on Mars is likely to ...

Describing the paper, Hebrew University said: "This article was one of many in Einstein's attempts to unify the forces of nature into one, single theory and he devoted the last 30 years of his life to...

Clean, green offshore wind is set to power more than 30% of British electricity by 2030, Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry announced yesterday (7 March 2018) with the launch of the new...

Previous estimates of the Milky Way's mass ranged from 500 billion to 3 trillion solar masses. "Because of their great distances, globular star clusters are some of the best tracers astronomers ha...

The images depict two T-38 supersonic jets from the US Air Force during a test flight from the research center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. "With this upgraded system, we have, by an orde...

The Crew Dragon made history last week when SpaceX launched the first spacecraft under NASA's commercial crew program . First autonomous docking of a US spacecraft to the International Space...

A brand new study claims that the green color is the result of the iron oxides in the rock dust from Antarctica's mainland. Iron is a key nutrient for phytoplankton, microscopic vegetation that k...

Get our weekly newsletter directly in your inbox! In addition to the Israeli flag, the plaque bears the Hebrew caption "Am Yisrael Chai" - the people of Israel live - a rallying cry used to symbolize...

Fish & Wildlife Service spokesman. "Wolf recovery is progressing well in Washington and our wolves will remain a state endangered species until state recovery goals are met". Wildlife advocates have s...

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose lifting protections for wolves across the Lower 48 states. Environmental and conservation groups have tor...

IBM revealed the results at the 2019 American Physical Society March Meeting , That venue shows just how far quantum computing has to go before it moves from physics research to more down-to-earth ...

When astronauts McClain and Koch step outside the ISS on March 29, it will be just shy of 35 years since the first woman walked in space - a milestone set by cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, ...

SpaceX recently launched its Crew Dragon astronaut capsule with the help of its Falcon 9 rocket. It will be slowed by four parachutes, in what is the one of the mission's riskiest stages.The launch ...

The US still uses Russian Soyuz spacecraft for sending astronauts to the space station . SpaceX , along with Boeing, was awarded a contract to fly USA astronauts to the space station by NASA bac...

The picture, taken during a slow orbit, also includes a board attached to the spacecraft with the Israeli flag and the words in Hebrew "Am Israel Chai", the people of Israel lives and Small Country Bi...

Mini Cheetah weights only twenty pounds, which might be a key element behind is capabilities. MIT is back with the most recent variant of its Cheetah quadrupedal robot, the Mini Cheetah , an...

Around 11 minutes later, the Falcon 9 boosters and capsule detached from one another successfully. Crew Dragon will dock to the forward port of the space station's Harmony module, which has been f...

The report provides an analysis through insights on dynamics comprising of drivers, trends, restraints and opportunities that have considerable impact in the growth of waste to energy market . MRH ...

The article titled "Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest " documents 15 cases of arthropods - mainly large spiders and centipedes - preying ...

Wheeler's nomination has been welcomed by businesses eager to see reduced regulation, but upset Democrats and conservation groups anxious that environmental rollbacks under the Trump administration ar...

SpaceX has been developing Crew Dragon under a $2.6 billion commercial-crew contract with NASA , after all. After opening its nose cone for navigational purposes, Dragon is now spending about 24 hour...

But it looks like the extent that spiders take down larger prey may have been underestimated, even though the majority of their diet does consist of bugs. The study "details instances of arthropod pr...

SpaceX said the spacesuit for Ripley, apparently a reference to the protagonist in the science fiction movie " Alien ", has been embedded with sensors around its head, neck, and spine to monitor how ...

The fact that spiders have varied diets isn't surprising, per ScienceAlert . The Amazon rainforest is home to many terrifying creatures, not the least of which are huge tarantulas the size of din...

Beresheet also has an issue with the star tracker it uses for navigation being susceptible to blinding by the sun's rays. "At this time, the spacecraft's systems are working well, except for the kno...

The nanoparticles work by anchoring to the mouse's photoreceptor cells , with the rodent then subjected to infrared light, with nanoparticles capturing the infrared wavelengths and retransmitting s...

The clouds cover about 20% of subtropical oceans and play an important role in reflecting sunlight back into space . According to one landmark report, countries have just eleven years until the wor...

According to Wilson-Raybould, Wernick told her that Trudeau wanted to know why SNC-Lavalin was not being offered a remediation agreement, a kind of plea bargain that would allow the company to avoid t...

I think you're referring to some sort of document - I think some doctored document that somebody other than us has been circulating. Senator Dianne Feinstein is drawing criticism for snapping at...

The newest photos represent fulfillment of what mission scientists called their "stretch goal", recording images just before the closest approach, pointing the spacecraft's cameras so as to capture th...