The Scientific Quest to Explain the Dimming of Tabby’s Star
Astronomers explain the reasons behind the behavior of Tabby’s Star. Some 1,500 light years from Earth, a mystery of stellar proportions is playing out. A…
Astronomers explain the reasons behind the behavior of Tabby’s Star. Some 1,500 light years from Earth, a mystery of stellar proportions is playing out. A…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Swift missions, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, astronomers reveal new details on one of the most mysterious stellar…
New research from the University of Pennsylvania gives scientists a better idea of olivine’s strength, with implications for how tectonic plates form and move. No…
Researchers from MIT used the CMS data to reveal, for the first time, a universal feature within jets of subatomic particles, which are produced when…
NASA astronomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to understand the creation of the universe’s first galaxies and stars. After it launches and is…
By combining data from different telescopes, astronomers have discovered five new pairs of merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual…
New research from MIT shows that mutations in the KEAP1 gene could point the way to treating an aggressive form of lung cancer that is…
This newly released image of Saturn was taken by the Cassini Spacecraft several months before ending its mission on September 15, 2017. Stunning views like…
An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars last month, sparking a global aurora more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by…
Researchers from MIT show that a newly discovered kind of magnetic behavior holds great promise as a way of storing data — one that could…
New observations from ALMA reveal the first detection ever of an organohalogen, Methyl chloride (CH3Cl), in interstellar space. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
Hubble views the scattered and warped appearance of galaxy NGC 4490, which is the result of a past cosmic collision with galaxy NGC 4485. This…
This Hubble image of the week shows one of the largest and most intense regions of active star formation and the intriguing structure of stacked…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 4874 and many more distant galaxies that do not belong to the cluster. In the center…
New research sheds light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury’s surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids. Mercury, our…
New research on older data from NASA’s Mars Orbiter reveals evidence of significant hydration near the Martian equator — a mysterious signature in a region…
Different methods of studying cosmic expansion yield slightly different results, including for the age of the universe. In a new study, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. Coming from the distant Oort Cloud, K2 is visiting our inner solar system…