Parker Solar Probe Will Fly Directly Through the Sun’s Atmosphere
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy ESO 376-16, which is located roughly 23 million light-years from Earth. The distances to objects…
NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating charged particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and…
According to a newly published study from MIT, Earth’s oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extinction of species in future millennia. In the…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this striking image of Jupiter as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet. The image was taken on…
Using radio and X-ray data, astronomers reveal that the mini-halo in the Perseus cluster seems to be influenced both by the AGN activity and the…
A team of researchers has made the first demonstration of a solid state cooling device based on the electrocaloric effect. This thin flexible device that…
New research details how an electrocatalyst made up of copper nanoparticles provides the conditions necessary to break down carbon dioxide to form ethylene, ethanol, and…
A newly published study details how defects in metal oxides may be key to their performance for a variety of high-tech applications. Sometimes things that…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that fast radio bursts should occur over the entire observable universe, with at least one FRB…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features in the asteroid belt. These include a bright halo…
New research from Yale University and the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey reveals that the Milky Way might not be as “typical” as previously…
A team of engineers has developed a new microfluidic device uses acoustics to quickly analyze blood for signatures of cancer and other diseases. Cells secrete…
ALMA reveals a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae, helping astronomers to better understand…
Newly released image of aurora borealis over Canada as seen by the crew aboard the International Space Station. The spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern…
In a new study, Berkeley Lab scientists harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than…
A team of researchers has uncovered two closely related cytokines — molecules involved in cell communication and movement — that may explain why some people…
New research from NASA reveals the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their…