Hubble Program Views Superflares From Young Red Dwarf Stars
The word “HAZMAT” describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to life itself. Imagine the term being applied to entire planets,…
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Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
Fermi Energizes the Sky With Gamma-Ray Constellations
Kes 75: The Youngest Known Pulsar in the Milky Way
Counting Down to the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Launch
ACME Collaboration Sets Size Limit for Undiscovered Subatomic Particles
SOFIA Observations Reveal Possible Key to Black Hole Activity
Physicist Details the Shape of a Symmetrical Wormhole
Wind Farms Cause More Environmental Impact Than Previously Thought
Scientists to Debate Mars 2020 Landing Site for Next Rover
Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate…
When light Causes a Photoinduced Phase Transition
The way that ordinary materials undergo a phase change, such as melting or freezing, has been studied in great detail. Now, a team of researchers…
Astronomers Discover a Luminous Blue Kilonova, GRB150101B
On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous detection of light and gravitational waves from the same…
Chandra Operations Resume, Cause of Safe Mode Identified
The cause of Chandra’s safe mode on October 10 has now been understood and the Operations team has successfully returned the spacecraft to its normal…
New Polymer Material Uses Carbon Dioxide to Self‐Repair
A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer, which…
Evidence Shows Dinosaur Extinction Drove Pulses of Fish Diversification
A research team has found new evidence that fish rapidly evolved in two phases following the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction that occurred 66 million years…
Apollo 7 Views Southern California
This view of southern California was taken by the Apollo 7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth, on Oct. 12, 1968. Photographed from…
Is There a Relationship Between AGN and Star Formation?
Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus (a supermassive black hole is one whose mass exceeds a million solar-masses.) A key…
Hubble Telescope on the Hunt for Newborn Stars
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows a patch of space filled with galaxies of all shapes,…