Discovery

Around 4.5 billion years ago a giant object around the size of Mars crashed into the proto-planet Earth, called Theia. This essentially redid the planet and created the Moon, but new research suggests it also changed the way Earth would behave for the rest of its days.

It marks the first time a plant has been grown on the moon. In January, China became the first nation to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. Chang'e-4 lunar rover carried among its payload a small biosphere that housed six lifeforms, including cotton seeds. Using data from that biosphere experiment, researchers constructed a […] The post China grew a plant on the moon - it sprouted two leaves, data indicates appeared first on...

Kioxia introduced an optical interface for SSDs, which allows storage placement as far as 40 meters away from the host for better power efficiency, cooling, and data center layout planning.

"These exercises ultimately help the planetary-defense community communicate with each other and with our governments to ensure we are all coordinated should a potential impact threat be identified in the future," said NASA planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson in a press release.

A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical, planet-hopping aliens may reside.

"Instead of evolving into separate species over time, lineages readily hybridize with each other," a researcher said.

They have a short window of 4-plus years to plan excursion to asteroid whizzing by Earth

Trump has gotten more hostile to Project 2025 and its authors as criticism around the document mounts.

A scientific drilling ship has burrowed further into Earth’s mantle than ever before, obtaining new clues about the processes that feed oceanic volcanoes and the possible origins of life

The countdown is on.

A supercomputer at NASA produced an immersive, simulation of what happens when an object falls into a supermassive black hole.

Packed “peas in a pod” planetary systems could slow a comet through a game of gravitational pinball to enable a delivery of chemical building blocks for life, Cambridge researchers said.

It might have come from cosmic fireballs.

NASA spots ‘surprise’ X shapes in Earth’s atmosphere - and scientists are struggling to explain them -

New calculations reveal the potential timeline for the finale of the universe.

NASA conducts studies of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, explains. Credit: Space.com | Animations provided by NASA/ESO/ M. Kornmesser/ L. Calçada/ SpaceEngine / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona / LPG / CNRS /University of Nantes / Space Science Institute | edited by Steve Spaleta

It wasn’t supposed to be there.

The origin of life on Earth is a profound mystery - including when it started and how the ingredients for it were assembled. And a new study aimed at answering the latter question finds that some building blocks didn't need to have formed on Earth, but could have arrived from space. The study, published AprilContinue reading "Evidence grows that meteorites, comets could have brought essentials of life to early Earth" The post Evidence grows that...

To explain the origin of life, we need to understand how and where these building blocks form and under what conditions they spontaneously assemble themselves into more complex structures.

EXCLUSIVE: Astronomers were able to identify a group of neighboring planets that possess similar characteristics to our own. They believe life is already moving between planets.