NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore telescope has offered astronomers a detailed view of the star factory inside the Orion Nebula, one of the most famous and oft-photographed star-birthing clouds in the cosmos.

A team of researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea has developed a type of adhesive patch that works under a variety of conditions including underwater. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they studied octopus suction cups to design a better patch for human applications.

Chinese scientists claim they will attempt to grow potatoes on the moon in 2018, according to state-run media.

Achieving a perfect score in the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man is something to brag about, which is probably what Microsoft’s artificial intelligence is doing right now, assuming it actually knows how to brag.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scientists who had been conducting the first comprehensive atmospheric measurements in the region since the 1960s.

Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr. Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research into global warming (aka climate change). ‘The current focus on CO2 emissions reductions risks having a massively expensive global solution that is more damaging to societies than the problem of climate change,’ she says.

China today successfully launched its first X-ray space telescope to help scientists study the evolution of black holes, strong magnetic fields, and gamma-ray bursts.

Astronauts at the International Space Station released Aalto-2 into orbit on 25 May. The first satellite signal was detected from Japan on the same day, and later that evening the satellite had already made contact with the Otaniemi ground station.

Asteroid impacts pose such a huge threat to humanity that scientists are considering “backing-up” life on Earth in secure bunkers, according to an Australian robotics professor.

When Captain James Cook and the botanist Sir Joseph Banks navigated Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in the 1770s they described blooms of “sea sawdust” we now know to be the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium.

Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico.

Almost certainly yes—though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star in the universe, according to a new analysis by a theoretical physicist from UC Berkeley and a radio astronomer from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University.

Alien species are a global problem, but they’re a particular headache in certain hotspots of the world.

At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and power grid failures—which, he claimed, unfold in the same way.

Satellites can predict when massive swarms of desert locusts will form in Africa, according to a Tuesday statement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Scientists in Australia have developed a solar paint capable of pulling water molecules from the air and splitting them into oxygen and hydrogen, the latter of which can be stored for use as fuel.