Some things are easier to achieve if you're not alone. As researchers from the University of Rostock, Germany have shown, ...

Cancer is transported from one organ to another by invisible bubbles. Understanding these microscopic messengers could change ...

“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential ...

Researchers have created a new two-layer membrane filtration system that can significantly reduce the amount of micro and nanoplastics that leak from landfills into local water basins.

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Scientists define marine darkwaves - sudden drops in underwater light - and examine their effects on plants, animals, and ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists found that simple amino acids bond into peptides on interstellar dust, long ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL ...

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn't entirely clear why that layer forms.

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...