A backup version of Skylab was displayed when the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened 50 years ago. After renovation of the building, the artifact is once more on view in a new gallery ...

For most of scientific history, chemical elements were identified through materials that could be handled, heated, weighed or examined in a laboratory. Helium followed a very different path.

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...

A lost Philadelphia observatory once used to track the transit of Venus may be the place where the Declaration of Independence was read publicly for the first time.

JWST and radio interferometry caught six massive galaxies colliding 12 billion years ago, while a young supermassive black ...

Rosalind Franklin Mars rover received its first braking engines from NASA following ESA’s 347th Council meeting, advancing the mission toward a late-2028 launch. The throttleable descent engines will ...

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Webb captures dramatic temperature spikes on HD 80606 b, one of the most extreme giant planets ever discovered.

It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins ...

Creatine has been miscast as a fuel for nearly two centuries. The molecule French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul isolated ...

생쥐의 몸짓을 단어처럼 읽고 행동의 의미를 해석하는 인공지능(AI)이 개발됐다. 동물의 움직임을 단순히 분류하는 데서 나아가 자폐 모델 생쥐의 행동 특징까지 사전 지식 없이 찾아내는 데 성공했다. KAIST는 김대수 ...

For many years, doctors prescribing lithium have had to guess how the drug behaves inside a patient's brain. Now, a new study ...