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Scientists have long been fascinated with Yellowstone National Park and the scientific playground it has provided the research community over the decades. Seismic tomography has played a key role in that research giving scientists insights into...

A team of scientists including physicist Johanna Nagy at Washington University in St. Louis successfully launched a balloon-borne experiment studying the early universe on Dec. 21. The instrument, called SPIDER, was carried aloft by a scientific balloon from its launch pad in Antarctica.

A Slovenian company Sinergise, together with partners that form the T-Systems International consortium, signed an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission (EC) on setting up a system for storing, processing and distributing data from the Copernicus system (Copernicus Space Component Data Access ‒ CDAS), worth EUR 150 million in total.

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis discovered that under Mars-like conditions, manganese oxides can be readily formed without atmospheric oxygen. The study from the laboratory of Jeffrey Catalano in Arts & Sciences was published Dec. 22 in Nature Geoscience.

A futuristic study suggests that a spinning, rubbly asteroid could support a massive space settlement the size of Manhattan.

Enjoying the cool breeze and weather lately, we aren't in winter just yet – well, astronomically anyway. But, its right around the corner...

A team of international scientists led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered two earth-like planets orbiting a red dwarf star that lies within the habitability zone of the star.

A favorite novel of high school English teachers is “The Little Prince” by French writer and military pilot Antoine

With death closing in, NASAs Mars InSight Lander picked up a record-breaking Marsquake in May.

Astronomers discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system that orbit their star with respective years of just 10 and 21 days.