The James Webb Space Telescope captured a “jellyfish” galaxy with trailing gas streams, offering new insight into how galaxies evolve within dense clusters.
Fungi aboard the International Space Station have demonstrated the ability to extract metals through natural biochemical processes. While raising questions about material durability in orbit, the discovery also suggests potential for bio-mining in future Moon and Mars missions. Scientists from NASA and ESA continue studying how microgravity influences fungal behavior and metal interactions.
Rising atmospheric CO₂ may reduce nitrogen availability in boreal forests, potentially limiting their ability to absorb carbon and altering long-term ecosystem dynamics.
Fungi aboard the International Space Station have shown unexpected metal-extraction abilities, offering insights for future space resource use and long-term missions.
Scientists report that a massive gravity anomaly beneath Antarctica appears to be strengthening, offering new insights into Earth’s interior and Antarctic mass dynamics.
Scientists have discovered tiny channels in the skull that connect bone marrow to the brain’s protective layers, enabling rapid immune defense and aiding fluid drainage.
Researchers observed statistical localization in a quantum simulator, where most qubit states remain frozen — a result that could inform future quantum memory and computing designs.
Researchers engineered a solid-state membrane that autonomously opens and closes tiny pores through chemistry and voltage, mimicking biological ion channel behavior with potential in sensing and computing.
Satellites captured the Moon’s shadow sweeping over Antarctica during the Feb. 17 “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse, offering rare imagery of the celestial event.
Dr. Arne Croell of UAH’s RSESC received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for pioneering work on nuclear fuel materials key to nuclear thermal propulsion and space exploration.
Studies show wildland-urban fires release more toxic and complex air pollution than forest fires alone, raising public health concerns as development expands into fire-prone areas.
Scientists have identified a cellular structure that acts as an anchor for HIV replication. Disrupting it in lab tests reduced viral replication, opening potential new research pathways.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a “jellyfish galaxy” being stripped of gas 8.5 billion years ago, revealing how clusters shaped early galactic evolution.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a “cosmic jellyfish” galaxy losing gas in a cluster, offering new insight into how environmental forces shape galactic evolution.
NASA’s analysis of samples from asteroid Bennu shows amino acids, life’s building blocks, formed in deep-freeze conditions far from the Sun — suggesting life’s chemistry is more robust and widespread than once thought.
New research links the ratio of index to ring finger length in newborns with prenatal hormone exposure and larger head sizes, offering a clue to how human brain evolution may have been shaped by hormonal effects before birth.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Florida produced a striking early-morning plume that spread into the sky like a glowing pattern, captured as Space Photo of the Day and linked to the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.
Deep‑sea fish larvae reveal hybrid photoreceptors combining rod and cone traits, challenging century-old vision models and inspiring new insights into evolution and technology.
A rare Edmontosaurus skull at the Museum of the Rockies has a Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in it, providing vivid evidence of predator‑prey interaction 66 million years ago.
Researchers developed ultra‑stable lasers using crystalline mirrors in optical cavities, achieving dramatically improved frequency stability that could enhance next‑generation clocks and navigation systems.
New research suggests Saturn’s rings may have formed after a mid-sized moon was torn apart by gravity, indicating the iconic rings could be much younger than once believed.
The Moon continues to slowly shrink as it cools, creating faults and ridges that can produce moonquakes—relevant for science and future lunar missions.
New global mapping of small mare ridges on the Moon reveals tectonic activity and potential moonquake sources that could help inform NASA’s Artemis mission planning.
Scientists have mapped widespread young tectonic features and ongoing moonquakes, showing the Moon is still geologically active and may pose considerations for future lunar bases.