Webb will see galaxies that formed just after the Big Bang and help determine whether planets orbiting other stars could support life.
But there's a very, very small chance it will actually enter our atmosphere.
A catshark with no skin and no teeth was recently pulled in by a research boat. And it was alive.
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the...
New research examining the crystal structure of the silica mineral quartz under shock compression is challenging longstanding assumptions about this ubiquitous material.
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences has conducted a study on observing galaxies in the solar system. This study has made many
The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the center of the Milky...
The quest is on for a better way to kill beautiful but brutally destructive lionfish than shooting them one by one with spearguns.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a metal-free carbon-based catalyst that has the potential to be much less expensive and more...
The inner core of our planet is between 1 and 1.3 billion years old, according to new research led by the University of Texas at Austin...