Dome A, the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research....
Some 700 million years ago, the Earth experienced several rounds of the most unusual climates in its history. Known as Snowball Earth, these events made re
Future spacecrafts bound for the moon or beyond will benefit from high-powered computer simulations underway at the University of Michigan that model the...
au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research by an international team from China, Australia and the...
Florida State University researchers are contributing to the the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, a project to better understand how the human genome works....
A Purdue University innovator who studies ocean creatures to develop adhesives is now turning his team's attention to the changing chemistry of seawater...
On Thursday morning, NASA will launch its fifth Mars rover: A robotic scientist the size of an SUV.
The Phoenix stream in the Milky Way halo is shown to be a tidally disrupted remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster, which was possibly destroyed...
There are tens of thousands of proteins in the human body. A single lab at UConn Health spent five years studying 356 of them, and they've...
The night-time seeing (the extent to which a star’s light is blurred by the atmosphere) at Dome A, the highest part on the Antarctic plateau, can...