Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...

NASA telescopes in Chile have discovered a comet from interstellar space, making its closest approach in October.

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

"A systematic study on the spatial pattern of cultivated pastures on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is of great significance to the ecological management of the plateau," said He Jinsheng, a professor at ...

Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...

A team of University of California (UC) researchers say they have developed a tool that could help steer the aviation sector ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — ...

Eastern Australia is one of the most fire-prone regions in the world, with bushfires responsible for the deaths of about 800 people and millions of animals since about 1850.

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s ...