The MicroAge study will be launched from the Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday and aims to help scientists understand what happens to human muscles as people age.
The world's most powerful telescope is set to profoundly transform scientists' understanding of the universe and our place in it.
"Being able to harness and nurture the skills and talents of the whole population is critical for our national security," the government has said.
As people across the globe prepare to welcome in 2022, Sky News podcast series StoryCast '21 finishes with an episode about how the start of the millennium sparked fears of widespread catastrophe.
Before we get too excited about NASA's asteroid deflection test, we should recognise that humanity is very bad at predicting impacts.Since 1988 our planet has been hit by more than 1,200 asteroids la
Video released by the European Southern Observatory zooms in on Sagittarius A* and shows how it warps the orbits of stars.
It is one of the most extreme journeys a spacecraft has ever endured, coping with extreme radiation and temperatures close to the melting point of steel.
The new research could enable vaccines to be developed in as little as 100 days from the moment a virus is first detected.
The discovery, dubbed "Baby Yingliang", is believed to be between 66 and 72 million years old, and was found in the Late Cretaceous rocks of Ganzhou in southern China.
A study looks at the impact of the animals becoming more isolated and says the loss of genetic diversity is "alarming".
The species was once considered abundant in the Atlantic Ocean but has been classified as critically endangered since 2010.
The Chivo Wallet system crashed on Tuesday when a recently passed law recognising Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador took effect.
Although poor sunlight conditions meant that subsequent images of the sample tube were inconclusive, NASA's researchers believe the mission was successful.
Before exploding, the Firefly rocket appeared to take twice as long to reach the speed of sound compared to what had been expected.
Scientists believe that assumptions about when a super volcano beneath Sumatra's Lake Toba is likely to erupt may be mistaken. It's one of 20 known super volcanoes on our planet, with another being beneath Yellowstone National Park in the US.
The US Federal Aviation Administration says company cannot fly its SpaceShipTwo until the end of its investigation into a mishap report on the flight the British billionaire took in July.
When tested in mice, the vaccine increased the numbers of anti-tumour T cells that target cancerous growths, helping to increase survival rates.
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