New Discovery Reveals Quantum Particles Can Travel Backwards
Mathematicians reveal a unique property of quantum mechanical particles – they can move in the opposite way to the direction in which they are being…
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Mars Opportunity Rover Captures Panorama Above ‘Perseverance Valley’
CfA Astronomers Map Substructure in the HST Frontier Fields
Hubble Views Tiny Moon Phobos Orbiting the Red Planet
Yale Biologists Discover What Causes Asymmetry in Plants
SpARCS Collaboration Measures Star-Forming Material in Early Universe
Physicists Use the Universe as a “Cosmological Collider”
Massive Asteroid Impact Could Explain Martian Geological Mysteries
Harnessing Quantum Cryptography
New Horizons Captures New Data on Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69
NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69….
Astronomers Reveal a High-Energy Trap in Our Galaxy’s Center
New research reveals that the center of our Milky Way contains a “trap” that concentrates some of the highest-energy cosmic rays. A combined analysis of…
New Inexpensive Robots Find Leaks from Inside Pipes
Engineers from MIT have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in pipes with pinpoint precision, no matter what the…
Evidence That The Southern Amazon Rainforest Triggers Its Own Rainy Season
New research gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season using water vapor from plant leaves. The new…
Backyard Worlds Planet 9 Citizen Science Project Discovers a Brown Dwarf
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project has discovered its first substellar object, WISEA J110125.95+540052.8 – a T5.5 brown dwarf located approximately 34 pc…
Astronomers Discover Smallest Star to Date, EBLM J0555-57Ab
A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has discovered the smallest star to date. The star is about the size of Saturn….
Cassini Views Enceladus’ Intriguing South-Polar Jets
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Enceladus’ intriguing south-polar jets from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine. Observations of the…
NASA Records the Eerie Sounds of Plasma Waves Surrounding Earth
NASA scientists, with the help of the Van Allen Probes mission, have recorded the eerie sounds made by different plasma waves in the particle symphony…
Hubble Image of the Week – Galaxy NGC 4242
This Hubble image of the week shows galaxy NGC 4242, which is located 30 million light-years away. Tucked away in the small northern constellation of…