The mystery of how homing pigeons are able to navigate home may have been solved with new research showing that the birds use low-frequency sound waves to make a mental map of their location.
A team of scientists from Penn State have redefined the concept of habitable zones around a star. The habitable zone or the goldilocks zone is of a not-too-close, not-too-far distance from the parent star, but apt to sustain life.
Funding agencies may be paying out duplicate grants, according to new study.
Sex helps burn 300 calories. Breast-feeding helps new moms to lose weight. These are just of the diet myths that have now been busted by a new study done.
A 108 million Euro contract was awarded to Astrium today to develop two advanced launcher systems at once, the Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME. This follows up the decision of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Ministerial Council meeting from November 2012 to go with both new launchers instead of selecting...
A daughter company of Mars One, the company that will establish the first human colony on Mars in 2023 (if no one else is faster, that is), announced on Tuesday that they received their first investments, which will be used to finance the Conceptual Design Studies and the launch of the global Astron...
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form new worlds may be still creating them, according to scientists.
Vegetarians are 32 percent less likely to die or need hospital treatment as a result of heart disease, according to a new study.
Kynamro has officially been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a rare, inherited disease.
Yesterdays NASA experiment to release vaporized lithium in the sky went according to plan, with a small rocket launched from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket took off at 5:50 p.m. EST and produced two lithium vapor trails during the flight, color...
Atlas V will carry the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite into orbit Wednesday night.
A long-held theory that comet attacks ended the 9,000-year-old culture has officially been debunked.
