With thousands of exoplanets discovered in just the past few years, showing that planetary systems are actually the norm in our galaxy and universe, it is very likely that there are also countless moons. Scientists now published research on the question if and how those moons could support life in t...
Research by University of Arizona astronomy professor Rodger Thompson finds that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein's theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained data on a fundamental constant, the proton to electron mass ratio.
Sound sensing cells in the ears of mice could be regrown with the help of a compound found by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
It is official: The year 2012 was the warmest and second most extreme year on record for the contiguous U.S. according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center.
Signs of two large asteroid belts around Vega, which is the second brightest star in northern night skies, were reportedly found by astronomers employing the two infrared space telescopes Herschel from the European Space Agency, and Spitzer from NASA.
Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy - a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the inside, its exact structure is difficult to determine.
The European ESA's Herschel space observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this weekend. The data shows the asteroid to be bigger than first estimated, and less reflective.
Aalto University scientists have organized synthetic and biological building blocks in a single structure - combining virus particles (and other protein cages) with inorganic nanoparticles to form crystalline layer structures, or superlattices.
Newly-released Hubble images of the Fomalhaut system, which was called 'Eye of Sauron' by some, shows a vast debris belt which is wider than previously known, and hosts a rogue planet on a potential collision path.
Short interruptions and distractions - like from emails, mobile phone notifications etc - have a surprisingly large effect on one's ability to accurately complete a task, according to new research by Michigan State University psychologists.
The first videos ever shot of giant Architeuthis squids in their natural deep-sea habitat have been shot by Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK). Screen grabs from the footage captured in July 2012 were now released, which show a 3-meter giant near Chichi island, about 1000 kilometers south of Tokyo.
Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity used another of its many tools for the first time: the brush! Which is really just doing that, cleaning the floor, in this case select Mars rocks. Its a sophisticated, space-certified, motorized, wire-bristle brush though, attached on the turret at the end of the rov...
