Hubble Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 5559
This newly released Hubble image of the weeks shows spiral galaxy NGC 5559, which is located about 220 million light-years away from Earth. Like firecrackers…
This newly released Hubble image of the weeks shows spiral galaxy NGC 5559, which is located about 220 million light-years away from Earth. Like firecrackers…
A newly developed method allows researchers to learn more about how existing antibiotics work and potentially help them to develop new drugs. MIT and Harvard…
The movements of more than 300,000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of…
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Launched in 2012, NASA’s Van Allen Probes are now celebrating their fifth year in space studying the Van Allen Radiation belts. Most satellites, not designed…
New research reveals that several of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are at the right distance from their star for liquid water to exist…
New research from the Max Planck Institute shows that nucleolar size correlates with health and lifespan in organisms as diverse as roundworms, flies, and humans….
Astronomers are preparing for the Juno Spacecraft’s seventh science flyby over Jupiter, which is set to occur tomorrow. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft will make its seventh…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that UV light may have played a critical role in the emergence of life…
Astronomers have detected CH+ for the first time in the distant Universe, opening up a new window of exploration into a critical epoch of star…
After observing a nearby galaxy from which ultraviolet light is escaping, astronomers hypothesize that black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies and allowed light to…
New research shows that an anti-inflammatory drug that lowered inflammation without affecting cholesterol still reduced cardiovascular risk. A significant reduction in risk of recurrent heart…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured an image of the Moon’s shadow over a large region of the United States during the total solar eclipse…
Hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine contradict a long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes. Z, the most…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years…
This newly released movie sequence of images from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn’s ring system. Cassini captured the images from within…
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This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view…