Himanshu Goenka

A new study found microphones become much better when using spider silk and this has possible applications for hearing aids as well as for smartphones.

NASA is working on two efforts to develop compact technologies that could help understand comets better and maybe even deflect asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

A number of pairs of massive black holes could be colliding and merging on the outer edges of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way.

The gas giant has massive and spectacular northern and southern lights which are visible only in X-ray, covering an area larger than Earth’s surface.

An anthropology paper contests the view that people living in modern nation-states are less violent than their hunter-gatherer predecessors.

The eclipse is mentioned in the book of Joshua in the Old Testament, and knowing its exact date also helps pinpoint the reigns of several Egyptian pharaohs.

NASA will launch a sounding rocket Oct. 30 which, during its 15-minute flight, will try to understand how the early universe got ionized.

As more states legalize marijuana in some form or another, there have been concerns its regular use may adversely affect sexual desire or performance. Statistics show the opposite.

Kepler-13Ab is a “hot Jupiter” gas giant exoplanet about 1,730 light-years away from Earth in a multiple-star system, and was spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A comet — it could also be an asteroid — made its closest approach to the sun Sept. 9, and it could be the first known object from outside the solar system to enter it.

Data collected from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission helped scientists explain the intervening stage between the formation of pebbles and planetesimals.

Galaxy clusters are the largest cosmic structures in the universe, and are also thought to contain large amounts of dark matter in their cores.

Kayentapus ambrokholohali was a megatheropod and likely the largest meat-eating dinosaur that lived in Africa during the early Jurassic epoch.

Supergiant stars are usually found in pairs or groups, but Zeta Puppis, which is about 60 times the sun’s mass, is a lone ranger that is moving really fast.

Under most climate change scenarios, the ash cloud thrown up by a big eruption would block out the sun, which in turn would cool Earth.

A hunter-gatherer male that lived into his 40s about 50,000 years ago suffered from multiple injuries as well as deafness and had his right forearm amputated.

Classic psychedelic drugs like magic mushrooms, LSD or mescaline are illegal in most countries but can have reliable positive effects associated with their use.

French astronomer Charles Messier first put together a catalog of non-comet celestial objects in 1774 to help comet seekers.

The magnetic tail trailing behind Mars is unique in the solar system and is twisted by the solar wind, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has found.

As global warming causes glaciers to melt, global sea levels have been rising steadily in the recent years, but that was not the case at the end of the last ice age.

The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite is scheduled for a Dec. 8 launch and will orbit about 350 miles above Earth’s surface, which is higher than the International Space Station.

The billionaire entrepreneur changed the automotive and space launch industries with Tesla and SpaceX, and Musk’s newest venture — the Boring Company — digs tunnels and now, also sells hats.

Microseisms have long been known to be caused by wind-driven ocean waves, but now, scientists have learnt they occur due to waves in lakes too.

We take the three dimensions of space for granted as a fundamental fact of life, but why are there only three, and not more or fewer?

The company filed for bankruptcy in the United States in September but its growing Asian business is not a part of those proceedings.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had been in the Saturn system since mid-2004, and finally ended its mission by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere Sept. 15.

Only 20 of the unusually shaped spindle galaxies have been observed so far, while spiral disk — like our own Milky Way — are far more common in the universe.

The corona, or the sun’s outer atmosphere, is hundreds to thousands of times hotter than the surface temperature of about 6,000 degrees.

Other than human activity, which is by far the largest contributor of greenhouse gases, animals are also a source of carbon emissions.