Parker Solar Probe Will Face Several-Million-Degree Fahrenheit Temperatures
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit…
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit…
Johns Hopkins researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell layer surrounding breast milk ducts reaches out to…
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered…
Astronomers in the past decade have detected thousands of galaxies dating from epochs only a few billion years after the big bang. Many of them,…
An international collaboration operating NASA’s NuSTAR satellite has revealed that two of the biggest stars in the galaxy are capable of creating cosmic rays. Their…
Obtained for a research program on star formation in old and distant galaxies, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image obtained with its Wide Field Camera…
In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away lost a million-year-long fight against gravity and collapsed, triggering a…
The case for an ambitious new particle accelerator to be built in the United States has just gotten a major boost. Today, the National Academies…
Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the…
Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black holes. These overlooked regions are…
A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new…
In the summer of 2018, the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other, in opposition to Earth. During this event the planets are…
A lunar eclipse will be visible over much of the Earth on July 27, 2018. At least part of the eclipse will be visible in…
Astronomers conduct successful test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity near supermassive black hole. The massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way…
Professor Odintsov comments, “Possible future singularity was studied within the modified theory of gravity with the use of dynamical system variables. We showed that a…
Antiretroviral therapies have worked wonders in suppressing HIV replication and its progression to AIDS, but their effectiveness is deteriorating due to the constant development of…
Data from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun’s atmosphere for over 20…
A new paper published in Science this week suggests that liquid water may be sitting under a layer of ice at Mars’ south pole. The finding…