Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have seen a key stage in the birth of giant planets for the first time. Vast streams of gas are flowing across a gap in the disc of material around a young star. These are the first direct observations of such stream...
The House of Representatives today unanimously approved a bill that extends a risk-sharing and liability regime to support American commercial space transportation operators against catastrophic losses suffered by the uninvolved public.
After decrypting the DNA of pandas, researchers have discovered an antibody in panda blood that even kills otherwise drug-resistant strains of bacteria and fungus, known as superbugs.
Following a spectacular year 2012, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built, will stop operation after January 2013 for nearly 2 years of maintenance.
An eight-year long study on genetically engineered mice, published in open-access journal PLOS One, found that cosmic radiation accelerates the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
This beautiful spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away, slightly resembling exploding fireworks, was selected as the picture for today's New Years Eve 2013 by NASA. Its defined by a super-massive black hole 100 million times the mass of our sun in its center, which is drawing matter towards the mi...
A team of researchers demonstrated a working example of a single-molecule motor, that can be switched to rotate in both directions, using the capabilities of scanning tunneling microscopes to manipulate single atoms and construct new molecules to build molecular devices, among them molecular motors ...
The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe, according to reports.
Up to 7,400-year-old wooden structures for water wells were discovered by German archaeologists which suggest that prehistoric farmers had unexpectedly refined carpentry skills. The results "contradict the common belief that metal was necessary for complex timber constructions", and question the cur...
The space agency and industry in Russia will receive a strong increase in budget over the coming 8 years, according to Russia's national news agency RIA Novosti.
While both Mars Exploration Rovers, Curiosity and the now 9 year old Opportunity, are traveling the surface of the red planet in search for water and clay minerals, it is data from orbit that a new study used to find surprising amounts of the water-formed mineral on Mars.
There will be some cosmic fireworks in 2013, like one of the potentially brightest comets in decades. The comet known as C/2012 S1 (or ISON), was first discovered in September, and is expected to outshine even the moon and be visible at day at its peak.
