A Billion or More Jupiter-Like Worlds Could Be Orbiting Stars in the Milky Way
Using data from NASA’s Juno probe, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of Jupiter and the many Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. Our galaxy…
Using data from NASA’s Juno probe, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of Jupiter and the many Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. Our galaxy…
A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School has identified a key instigator of nerve cell damage in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter. The galaxy, Dragonfly 44, is located in the…
Scientists reveal that a newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have…
In a newly published study, researchers from Yale University report that infection by the Zika virus diverts a key protein necessary for neural cell division…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered…
Yale scientists have discovered a new and effective therapy for cerebral cavernous malformations. A team of researchers led by Yale professor of pathology Wang Min…
Newly published research identifies the western U.S. counties with the highest risk of exposure to pollution from wildfires. Wildfires threaten more than land and homes….
Newly published research details how biological engineers from MIT developed a way to record complex histories in the DNA of human cells, allowing them to…
New research from Yale University suggests that simply being in the habitable zone isn’t sufficient to support life. A planet also must start with an…
This new Hubble image captures the glow of distant stars within NGC 5264, a dwarf galaxy located just over 15 million light-years away in the…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the Venus-like Exoplanet GJ 1132b might possess a thin, oxygen atmosphere – but no life…
New Chandra data of the supernova remnant G11.2-0.3 raise new questions about the timing of its origin. Chandra observations show that dense gas clouds lie…
New research details how a shockwave created by the driving force of a coronal mass ejection from the sun – struck the outermost radiation belt,…
Using data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy and other observatories, astronomers reveal how a particular type of organic molecules, the raw materials for…
A team of astronomers has discovered two dwarf galaxies that have traveled from the remote hinterlands of space to the Milky Way. NASA’s Hubble Space…
Using the ALMA submillimeter array, astronomers image the disk around HR8799 with a spatial scale as small as only thirty-two au, enough to probe the…
This newly released Hubble image shows the aftermath of an exploding star that was located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Several thousand years ago, a…