Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

NASA has reopened the question of how to keep the Hubble Space Telescope alive. On Oct. 29, the agency issued a request for information asking companies what they could do to service the observatory, according to Space.com. Hubble is workin

Three NASA astronauts living on the International Space Station voted in the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 3 without leaving orbit. Anil Menon said he, Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins each filled out an electronic ballot and sent it to el

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope that has been falling steadily out of orbit, could re-enter Earth's atmosphere as early as tonight, the agency says. Live Science reported that NASA's latest estimate, shared Nov. 2,

Astronomers are still waiting for the Blaze Star to erupt, and a new study suggests the first sign of the blast might not be light at all. According to EarthSky, researchers have proposed that neutrinos, tiny particles that barely interact

Dense star clusters in two very early galaxies seen by the James Webb Space Telescope may have been birthplaces for intermediate-mass black holes, according to a new study reported by Universe Today. Such black holes are thought to be the s

Radiation like that astronauts would face on a trip to Mars may raise the risk of a dangerous heart condition, a new study in rats suggests, according to Live Science. The effect appeared long after exposure, which leads the authors to argu

Paris Jackson, the daughter of Michael Jackson, has asked a Los Angeles court to order that $600 million from her father's estate be moved into a family trust for her and her siblings. PEOPLE reported the petition on Nov. 2, and Star News K

A new study suggests that people in prehistoric Japan were more resourceful after a catastrophic volcanic eruption than researchers had assumed. According to ScienceAlert, some regions were left uninhabitable for a very long time, but in ot

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has spotted two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way: a probable dim dwarf galaxy and a faint globular cluster. Universe Today reported that both turned up in the observatory's Early Data Preview 2, r

Caffeinated energy drinks and stimulant supplements turned up far more often in reports of serious heart problems than other foods and supplements did, according to a new analysis of U.S. government safety data. The pattern was strongest fo

A team of researchers says it has found what appear to be fossilized red blood cells inside a dinosaur bone that is 115 million years old, along with chemical traces of heme, the molecule that lets blood carry oxygen. The study was publishe

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