Evidence Supports Solution to 30-Year-Old Puzzle of Massive Star Formation
Using the Jansky Very Large Array, astronomers have discovered evidence supporting a solution to a 30-year puzzle about the birth of massive stars. An international…
GBT Views River of Hydrogen Flowing through Space
The Green Bank Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen river of hydrogen streaming into the nearby galaxy NGC 6946, helping to reveal how certain spiral galaxies…
Chandra Reveals Shock Heated Gas in Colliding Galaxies
Using used images and spectra from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers discovered evidence of shock-heated gas moving at speeds of about 2200 kilometers per second…
New Quantum Dots Design for Solotronics
Researchers at the University of Warsaw have created and studied two new types of solotronic structures, including the world’s first quantum dots containing single cobalt…
Interplanetary Dust Particles Can Deliver Water and Organics to Terrestrial Planets
New research shows that interplanetary dust particles from comets, asteroids, and leftover debris from the birth of the solar system, could have helped jump-start life…
Swift Reveals Before and After Images of Supernova SN 2014J
Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope shows before and after images of supernova SN 2014J, which occurred 12 million light-years away in galaxy M82. An exceptionally close stellar…
New Hubble Image Resembles Modern Art
This newly released Hubble image looks like something you would see at an art gallery, but the picture of brightly colored stellar streaks was most…
NASA’s Opportunity Reveals That Mars Could Have Supported Life
New findings from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveal that Mars had an ancient wet environment that was milder and could have supported life. Some…
Study Reveals Why Life in Earth’s Early Oceans Increased in Size
A newly published study examined the earliest communities of large multicellular organisms in the fossil record, revealing why life in Earth’s early oceans increased in…
Scientists Sequence the Genome of the World’s Oldest Continuously Surviving Cancer
Researchers have sequenced the genome of an 11,000-year-old dog cancer, revealing its secrets and origin. Scientists have sequenced the genome of the world’s oldest continuously…
Chandra Reveals the Extreme Power of a Distant Black Hole
Astronomers reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. Located in the center of galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021, the black hole is 3.9 billion…
Experimental Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records
The JILA strontium atomic clock has set new world records for both precision and stability, improving precision by 50 percent from the previous record holder…
Simulations Shed Light on the Formation of Stars in the Earliest Galaxies
Using some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, astrophysicists ran simulations charting the forces of the universe in its first hundreds of millions of years…
Kepler Reveals a New Neptune-Size Exoplanet
Data from Kepler has revealed a new Neptune-size exoplanet that is located in orbit around a star in a double-star system 425 light years from…
Herschel Detects Water Vapor on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, researchers have definitively detected water vapor on the dwarf planet Ceres, marking the first time water vapor has been unequivocally…
Rock “Appears” in Front of Opportunity Rover
This before and after view from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock that scientists believe was likely knocked into position from one of…
Engineers Convert Yeast Cells into Biofuel
Using genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar, engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering developed a new biofuel. Austin, Texas — Researchers at…
CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen
A newly published study describes the how the ASACUSA experiment at CERN produced a beam of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. The ASACUSA experiment…
