NASA’s first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu’s surface. Next week, the OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a second...
Plants recognize beneficial microbes and keep harmful ones out, which is important for healthy plants production and global food security. Scientists have now discovered how legumes...
Chemical reactions driven by the geological conditions on the early Earth might have led to the prebiotic evolution of self-replicating molecules. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU)...
It’s been said that if a machine ever gains awareness, it will be not due to our careful programming, but to an unforeseeable anomaly. Perhaps the...
A parasitic fungus can control the minds of cicadas, leading them to act like the undead.
Black holes may harbor planets in their orbits, some of them even similar to Earth, which astronomers decided to name ‘blanets.’ As per new simulations carried...
The fierce predator appears to have vertically articulating mouthparts.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 - Using some cosmic detective work, a team of researchers has found evidence that tiny pieces of asteroids from the...
DALLAS - Jacobs and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently built a new calibration device for the Mars Perseverance Rover which will seek signs of past microbial...
Thirty thousand years ago, a dead star on the other side of the Milky Way belched out a powerful mixture of radio and X-ray energy. On...