Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to drill into a new rock on Mars, a target the science team has named Nazca. The rock is covered in lumps shaped like discs and needles, a texture that scientists hope will reveal how the rock formed,

Plants preserved under a shrinking ice cap on Canada's Baffin Island suggest that glaciers in the region were growing again well before industrial warming, according to a study published in Science. New Atlas, reporting on the Columbia Univ

Astronomers say they have detected a long-sought process that lets a cold cloud of gas and dust loosen its magnetic grip and begin collapsing into a star. Universe Today reported that researchers measured a velocity difference of about 0.05

People who rely on AI assistance to work through math problems and reading comprehension tasks are more likely to give up, or to struggle, once that help is taken away, according to new research reported by Live Science. The finding points

A mounted skeleton of Nanotyrannus, a dinosaur long mistaken for a young Tyrannosaurus rex, goes on the auction block in New York on Tuesday, with a starting price of at least $6 million, the BBC reported. Sotheby's expects it to fetch up t

Google DeepMind has unveiled Genie 4, an updated "world model" that builds explorable virtual environments from a text description, according to Ars Technica. The model is meant to improve on last year's Genie 3, and Ars reports that Google

Meteorites that traveled from Mars to Earth have long carried a chemical contradiction: they look highly oxidized, yet the planet's deep interior should have produced the opposite. A new study suggests a rare garnet that forms only under ex

A satellite photo from a decade ago shows two hurricanes, Madeline and Lester, lined up over the Pacific and heading for Hawaii, Live Science reported in its weekly Earth-from-space series. The swirling clouds around the two storms look lik

Many adults feel uneasy around dolls, and researchers at Northeastern University say a long-studied quirk of human perception may be behind it. According to EarthSky, which reported on the scientists' comments, the reaction is known as the

For sixty years, scientists have listened for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. A parallel effort goes the other way: instead of waiting for a signal, it sends one. Universe Today has begun a series on the history of that practice, kn

Earth's magnetic field does not absorb the solar wind evenly. New computer simulations suggest some regions of the shield come under noticeably more stress than others, which could sharpen forecasts of space weather that threatens satellite

Two fossils found in China point to an amphibian that spent its entire life in the ocean, according to ScienceAlert. No amphibian alive today lives in the sea, since their porous skin generally cannot cope with salt. Geologist Lipin Diao an