Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

Researchers working in the Ethiopian highlands have documented what they describe as the first sustained same-sex sexual relationship between a bull and a donkey. The observations, reported in the journal Current Biology, suggest the two an

Nov. 2 marks an anniversary that changed how people live in space. On that date in 2000, the first long-term residents arrived at the International Space Station, according to Space.com. Because of that arrival, the orbiting outpost has now

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, report that they separated two effects of psilocybin in mice: the boost it gives to connections between brain cells and the trip-like response. The work was published in Nature Neurosc

People who report near-death experiences describe very different scenes, but a new study suggests those scenes follow a pattern. When 50 people drew the spaces they remembered, the shape of each space was linked to the colors they recalled,

Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company iQPS on Nov. 2, according to Space.com. The mission would be the company's 99th launch overall, and the launch can be watched live online. The sat

The sky in Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night appears to show a real night, not just a feeling, according to a new study. Universe Today reported that the research points to a crescent Moon, Venus and the Hyades star cluster rising in the

People in a remote, high-altitude town in northern Argentina may have evolved a genetic edge against arsenic, a poison that naturally seeps into their drinking water, according to ScienceAlert's report on research published in Molecular Bio

The first solid bodies in the outer Solar System were built almost entirely from tiny beads of heat-formed rock, not from icy dust, according to a study in Nature Astronomy reported by ScienceAlert. Researchers say it is the first geochemic

A particle that physicists have largely brushed aside for decades may help explain why the universe contains matter at all, according to a new theory reported by ScienceDaily. Researchers from the University of Southampton and the Indian In

An endangered insect from one of the oldest flying lineages has turned up beside a chalk river that was put back on its original course. The scarce blue-tailed damselfly, described by BBC News as one of the world's earliest flying insect sp

Frost and ice on the floors of craters near the north pole of Mars grow and shrink with the seasons, but not in the same way everywhere, according to a recent study. Universe Today reported that of 36 craters examined, 32 showed changes in

Dogs with no training in medical detection may notice the smell of a seizure, even when it comes from a stranger, according to a new study reported by ScienceAlert. In a University of Milan experiment, 14 of 30 dogs went to the seizure samp