Astronomers Predict What Will Happen When Our Sun Dies
Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next…until now. A team of international astronomers,…
Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next…until now. A team of international astronomers,…
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team explains why the growth of Mars was stunted by an orbital instability among the outer solar system’s giant planets…
Scientists have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds, marking a pivotal breakthrough in the quest for greater understanding of the planets beyond…
SUP05 bacteria are often found in places where there is really no basis for life for them. Researchers in Bremen have now discovered that they…
Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical research. But databases…
NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is on a 300-million-mile trip to Mars to study for the first…
In the darkness of the distant Universe, galaxies resemble glowing fireflies, flickering candles, charred embers floating up from a bonfire, light bulbs softly shining. This…
Our cerebral cortex, a sheet of neurons, connections and circuits, comprises “ancient” regions such as the hippocampus and “new” areas such as the six-layered “neocortex”,…
Infrared VISTA View of Stellar Nursery in Monoceros This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700 light-years away…
Since the limited amount of gas survived from the first bulk star forming process will be quickly expelled within several million years, star clusters have…
Just like any long polymer chain, DNA tends to form knots. Using technology that allows them to stretch DNA molecules and image the behavior of…
A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world’s forests in 3-D is moving toward an earlier launch to the International Space Station than previously…
As the Juno spacecraft orbits Jupiter, new discoveries about the giant planet continue to be made. When NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently flew over the poles…
Astronomers have detected massive clusters of galaxies dating from as early as only about three billion years after the big bang. The stars in these…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b. This is the first time this element has…
As people age, their intestinal stem cells begin to lose their ability to regenerate. These stem cells are the source for all new intestinal cells,…
Researchers have pieced together the three-dimensional skull of an iconic, toothed bird that represents a pivotal moment in the transition from dinosaurs to modern-day birds….
Soon after an individual’s initial infection with HIV, damage to brain volume and cortical thickness progressively worsens until anti-retroviral treatment is started, a new study…