Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

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

A rare insect that had vanished from Wales for 60 years appears to be breeding there again. Conservationists found larvae of the short-necked oil beetle in Pembrokeshire, the BBC reported. The discovery came after three years of searching a

Researchers at The Ohio State University have introduced an artificial intelligence framework designed to help mission planners decide where on the Moon to land and where to build a lasting base, according to Universe Today. The tool, calle

Researchers have recovered ancient human DNA from a small scoop of dirt in El Mirón Cave in Spain, in a layer that contains no bones, teeth or fossils, according to ScienceAlert. The genetic material comes from several people who lived ther

A new study suggests that exploding stars may not have helped lift the fog that once filled the young universe. According to Live Science, astronomers who examined nearby galaxies found that the ones with the strongest supernova-driven wind

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS appears to be made of unusually ancient material, according to a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy. Researchers led by scientists from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Division found that its methane h