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Daily Marvels in Scientific Exploration

Uncontrollable yet predictable, obvious yet inexplicable, blushing can be agony when we're made to feel mortified, ashamed, or simply self-conscious. A new study suggests that a key trigger of blush

BUSAN, South Korea The head of NASAs space technology directorate is leaving the agency after just six months on the job and will be replaced on an interim basis by the director of the Langley Resear

Classified within the Apollo group, this asteroid is not considered hazardous. NASA is monitoring the trajectory of asteroid NF 2024, a 220-foot (67-meter) space rock hurtling towards Earth at a spe

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered atmospheric differences on the exoplanet WASP-39 b, revealing temperature variations and distinct cloud cover across its tidally locked

Scientists in China have discovered a previously unknown fungal pathogen that can infect humans. The fungus, called Rhodosporidiobolus fluvialis, was found in clinical samples from two unconnected

For the past few weeks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) after the first crewed voyage of Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft hit

Enlarge/ One of the craters identified seismically, then confirmed through orbital images. 34 Mars trembles with marsquakes, but not all of them are driven by phenomena that occur beneath the surfa

Logowatch NASA is celebrating 65 years of its iconic "meatball" logo, despite spending the best part of 17 years trying to kill the poor thing. Painters work on the official NASA insignia, nicknamed

Originally published at Scientific American. Samantha Lawler is an assistant professor of Astronomy at the University of Regina. The e-mail arrived, like a bolt from blue, on the otherwise typical

Towards the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation Sagittarius, astronomers have discovered 10 monstrous neutron stars. These particular stars, called pulsars, reside together in globul