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United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft launch is delayed once more Saturday.

3rd Attempt to Launch Food and Supplies to Space Station Delayed Again

Dec 06, 2015 06:50 AM EST

United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo resupply vehicle launch was scrubbed once again Saturday due to dangerous winds.

The Far Eastern Curlew are suffering rapid declines from loss of habitat along their flight path between Siberia and Australia.

91% of Migratory Birds at Risk Due to Habitat Loss

Ana Verayo |

Dec 06, 2015 06:30 AM EST

New findings reveal how more than 90 percent of migratory birds' habitats including breeding grounds are poorly protected across the globe.

Monster galaxies are believed to form inside dark matter webs.

Monster Galaxies Found Wrapped Within Dark Matter Web

Ana Verayo |

Dec 05, 2015 06:30 AM EST

Astronomers detected a cluster of massive baby galaxies, wrapped within a web of dark matter, providing clues about the evolution of early galaxies.

The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum: In this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains.

New Pluto Images Reveal Best Ever, Sharpest Photos of Its Surface

Ana Verayo |

Dec 04, 2015 10:46 PM EST

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft just beamed back the best high resolution images from Pluto, from a distance of just 10,000 miles.

This is a scanning electron microscopy image of microdiamonds made using the new technique.

This New Kind of Diamond is Harder and Brighter Than Regular Diamonds

Ana Verayo |

Dec 04, 2015 08:24 AM EST

Researchers just discovered the third phase of carbon, creating a new kind of diamond which is harder and can even glow.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of gal

NASA Space Telescopes Detect Faintest Galaxy in the Universe

Ana Verayo |

Dec 04, 2015 06:41 AM EST

Scientists have detected the faintest known galaxy in the universe, from a distance of 4 billion light years away.

Artist impression of a Fast Radio Burst reaching Earth. The colours represent the burst arriving at different radio wavelengths.

Fast Radio Bursts from Deep Space? Bizarre Signals Reach Earth, Origin Revealed

Ana Verayo |

Dec 03, 2015 06:20 AM EST

Astronomers have recently detected a unique radio signal from deep space, that travelled for at least 6 billion light years to reach Earth.

Several macronarian sauropods; from left to right, Camarasaurus, Brachiosaurus, Giraffatitan, and Euhelopus.

Rare, Massive Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Scotland

Ana Verayo |

Dec 02, 2015 09:10 AM EST

Researchers uncovered some massive dinosaur footprints in the Isle of Skye belonging to some unknown species of sauropods, a close cousin of the brontosaurus.

Two direct images of the cometary dust and exoplanet surrounding the young star HD 106906. The wider field in blue shows Hubble Space Telescope data where the star’s blinding light is artificially eclipsed (gray circular mask).

This Planet Got Exiled From Its Solar System 16 Times Farther Than Pluto

Ana Verayo |

Dec 02, 2015 07:10 AM EST

Scientists detected an exoplanet that is exiled into the edges of its solar system, 16 times farther than the distance of Pluto from our sun.

China will open the world's biggest farm animal cloning facility in 2016.

China Opens World's Largest Animal Cloning Factory in 2016

Ana Verayo |

Dec 02, 2015 06:40 AM EST

Chinese and Korean biotechnology firms will open the largest farm animal cloning facility in Tianjin, to clone beef cattle and other farm animals.

The researchers used structural knowledge of Cas9 to guide engineering of a highly specific genome-editing tool.

Gene Editing Now Safer and More Precise? New Technique Still Raises Ethical Concerns

Ana Verayo |

Dec 02, 2015 06:40 AM EST

A new CRISPR-Cas9 system that can edit human DNA more precisely and now safer still raises doubts in terms of ethical implications.

Fossilized peach pits discovered in China dating back more than 2.5 million years are identical to pits found in modern varieties of the fruit.

World's Oldest Peach Pits Found in China at 2.5 Million Years Old

Ana Verayo |

Dec 02, 2015 06:20 AM EST

The world's oldest peach pits were found in Kunming, Yunnan in China, dating back to 2.5 million years old, shedding light to the evolution of the fruit.