Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

Europe's natural landscape was probably not the endless dark forest many people picture. A large new study reports that open woodlands, grassy clearings and wildflower meadows dominated the continent for more than 20 million years, accordin

Men with untreated obstructive sleep apnea had lower semen volume and fewer sperm that swim well than healthy men, according to a small study reported by ScienceAlert. Among a subset of participants who used a CPAP machine, sperm movement i

A Pakistani astronaut will join China's Shenzhou 24 mission and become the first foreign national to board Beijing's space station, Chinese state media reported on Saturday. The flight would also be the first joint mission with Chinese and

Conversations that balance staying on a topic with branching out tend to be more enjoyable, according to a study by researchers at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. They borrowed the physics concept of pink noise to describe that balance,

A European orbiter has detected traces of hydrogen chloride gas rising from cracked ground near Alba Mons, the largest volcano on Mars by surface area. According to a study in Science Advances, as reported by ScienceAlert, the researchers s

NASA's two ESCAPADE spacecraft are set to fire their thrusters close to Earth on Nov. 7 and Nov. 9, using the planet's gravity as a slingshot toward Mars, according to Universe Today. Once there, the pair are expected to be the first spacec

A proposed instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) could help astronomers weigh the dark matter around some of the strangest galaxies known, according to a new study in the journal New Astronomy. Universe Today reported on the pa

That brilliant, star-like point low in the east-southeast sky before sunrise is not a star. It is the planet Venus, and according to Space.com it is only starting its climb. The planet will keep rising earlier and shining brighter until it

November brings three meteor showers, a close meeting of Mars and Jupiter and a supermoon, according to a skywatching guide from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Leonids, expected to peak on the night of Nov. 17, are the main event, an

Rats exposed to radiation similar to what astronauts could face on a Mars mission developed more scar tissue around the small blood vessels of the heart than rats in a control group, according to a new study described by Live Science. The f

Most of the 30 volunteers who sat in a dimly lit mirror chamber in a new psychology study came away feeling that someone who had died was near, according to ScienceAlert. One woman said she felt her hair being stroked. The researchers found

Researchers led by a team at MIT have built never-before-seen crystal structures from gold nanoparticles by doing the opposite of what the field has long practiced: linking the particles with floppy molecules instead of rigid ones. The work