The excitement is building with NASA now just a few days away from sending four astronauts on a voyage around the moon.
On Wednesday, the space agency shared its schedule for coverage of the final buildup and main event, including a Q&A…

The excitement is building with NASA now just a few days away from sending four astronauts on a voyage around the moon.
On Wednesday, the space agency shared its schedule for coverage of the final buildup and main event, including a Q&A…
The tropical Pacific Ocean and the frozen expanse of Antarctica sit more than 10,000 kilometers apart. Yet new research shows that when surface waters warm near the equator in northern winter, the Antarctic stratosphere responds months later—a…

While we all celebrate our birthdays every 12 months (our chronological age), it doesn’t always match up with the rate at which our bodies are wearing out (our biological age).
Scientists have now identified 10 different blood markers that can…

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years – 5,000 years earlier than had previously been thought, new research said Wednesday.
Despite being ubiquitous in the homes, backyards…

JAKARTA — A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the island of Borneo, according to satellite imagery and government sources. In October…
An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a galaxy about 10 billion light-years away whose brightness dropped to one-twentieth of its original level in just 20…

Mass spectrometry is a widely used technique that helps scientists determine what molecules are present in a sample and how much of each there is. However, most current instruments examine molecules one at a time or in very small groups. This…

When it comes to reproduction, female biology is often described in terms of a ticking clock.
Women are born with most of their lifetime supply of eggs, meaning that a woman’s age is usually the same as the age of her eggs. Older women…