Astronomers Discover a Distant Solar System Object – 2015 TG387
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that…
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MIT Chemists Discover Unexpected Enzyme Structure
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Executes First Asteroid Approach Maneuver
New Model Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes
Black Holes Only Contain Small Percentage of the Universe’s Dark Matter
Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Successfully Treat Mitochondrial Diseases
Astronomers Identify Possible Places of Origin of ‘Oumuamua
‘Fingerprints’ of Ancient Weather Conditions
Hubble Telescope Views a Glittering Ball of Stars
New Identity for the World’s Largest Bird – Vorombe Titan
After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, scientists at international conservation charity ZSL’s Institute of Zoology, have finally put the ‘world’s largest bird’ debate…
Astronomers Probe Four Newly Discovered Milky Way Neighbors
Ultra-faint, dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe and are important targets for understanding…
NASA Extends Chandra X-Ray Observatory Operations
NASA has awarded a contract extension to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to continue operations and science support for the agency’s Chandra…
Juno Spacecraft Views Jovian Swirls
Clouds in a Jovian jet stream, called Jet N5, swirl in the center of this color-enhanced image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. A brown oval known…
2018 Arctic Summertime Sea Ice Minimum, Sixth Lowest on Record
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2018 lowest extent on September 19 and again on September 23, according to NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow…
Swarms of Nanomachines Could Improve the Efficiency of Any Machine
The research team of Prof. Massimiliano Esposito of the University of Luxembourg studied the thermodynamics of small nanomachines. All machines convert one form of energy…
Scientists Discover New Species of Giant Dinosaur – Ledumahadi Mafube
A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes…
Scientists Reveal the Key to Stem Cell Self-Renewal
Every skin cell on the human body is replaced weekly, with stem cells generating billions of specialized progeny that engage in an orchestrated scramble to…
Scientists Discover Why Some Supernova Explosions Produce More Manganese and Nickel
Researchers have found white dwarf stars with masses close to the maximum stable mass (called the Chandrasekhar mass) are likely to produce large amounts of…